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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Model of human eye

1870

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

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)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869