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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1846

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

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

1846

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

1934

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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 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)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE