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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1840

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Eclipse

1841

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1840

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Whitworth's self-acting screw feed reversing tool box planing machine

Whitworth's self-acting screw feed reversing tool box planing machine, 1842.

1842

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE