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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1840

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

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

1834

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836