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

1853-1857

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

1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

England and her Soldiers

1859

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

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

1838

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Eclipse

1841

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

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