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Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

The Countess of Lovelace

1840

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

John Harrison

1834-1837

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Letter, Isambard Kingdom Brunel to G.H. Wollaston, 13 February 1834

1834

Fantascope disc

1833

Letter from W J Curtis to Stockton & Darlington Railway, 29 October 1839

1839-10-29

Handbill, Royal Mails and Coaches

1842

Daguerreotype Portrait of a Young Lady

circa 1841

Catherine Dodds Grey

circa 1840

James Grey

circa 1840

Handbills

1841-1843

A Guide to the Eastern Counties' Railway

1839

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Cast Iron Bridge Plaque from Manchester & Birmingham Railway

1839

Single Headed Girder Rail, with One Joint Chair

1838

Cast iron troughs, rails and sides from Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, Ridley Hall bridge, 1838

1838

Locomotive "John Buddle"

1838

Bust of Venus

1841

Copy letter, Isambard Kingdom Brunel to ?, 22 March 1839

1839

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy with spare pot, 1836-1839

1836-1839

The Flying Steam Company, to China in Twenty-four Hours Certain

circa 1843

London & Birmingham Railroad. / T.T. Bury

1837

Design for a mail post carriage

1835