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Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Bridge link

1852

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Euston Station gates

1838

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

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

1832

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

1839

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96