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'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Eclipse

1841

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

circa 1840

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1840

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Henson's Flying Machine model [1843]. With stand and pieces of fabric.

William Henson's model of his 'Aerial Steam Carriage'

1843

Bas relief, Adam and Eve (assigned)

1841