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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

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

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The New Great Western Timetable

1844

Silhouette of boy

1844-02-10

Six paper photographs by Robert Hunt

1844

Handbills

1841-1843

Bust of Venus

1841

Paper Photograph by Robert Hunt

1844

Handbill, Royal Mails and Coaches

1842

Folkestone to Boulogne steam ship service timetable

1843

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Wheatstone's original bridge

1843

Draper's daguerreotype of Solar Spectrum

1842

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

Coloured engraving of Henson's Flying Machine Ariel

1843

A scene in a library

1841-1844

Chess players

circa 1844