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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Eclipse

1841

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Euston Station gates

1838

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

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

1839

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1839-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

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

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

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

1705-1737

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

1835-1840

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

1841

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924