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Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

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

1838

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1870-1877

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Sans Pareil

1829

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

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837