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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

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

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

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

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Eclipse

1841

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844