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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1837

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

1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

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

1838

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Euston Station gates

1838

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1839

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

1705-1737

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

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914