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Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1853-1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Britannia statue

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Cystoseira granulata

1843-1853

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

circa 1840

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Eclipse

1841

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857