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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

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

1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Railway bridge section

1850