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model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1834

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Slotting machine

1835

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Syringe, silver, made in Birmingham in 1836

1836

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120