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Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Sans Pareil

1829