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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

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

1848-1852

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

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

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

1840

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

1849

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835