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Locomotion

1834-1836

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

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

1834

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Gravity pendulum by Bailey, R.A.S. No.2

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Model of Heineken thermograph, by Heineken, 1837.

1837

Headgear, Ventilating Shaft, Kilsby Tunnel

1837

Mornington Crescent. Line under construction

1836

Kilsby Tunnel

1837

Avon Viaduct nr Brandon

1837

Hampstead Road Bridge from Camden Side

1836

Wolverton Embankment Under Construction

1837