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Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

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

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1846

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)