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Single-needle block instrument

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

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

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Bridge link

1852

Euston Station gates

1838

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

1837-1840

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

1839

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839