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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Slotting machine

1835

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

1838

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Commemorative medal, Grand Junction Railway

1837

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

1834

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

1834

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837