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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Railway bridge section

1850

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Bridge link

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)