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Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

1840

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

1849

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Euston Station gates

1838

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1835-1845

The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle on Tyne

1850

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1835-1840

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1705-1737

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851