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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Model railway turntable

1850

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Gordon universal type dental forceps

1835-1870

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Railway bridge section

1850

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

John Ellis

1858

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bradshaw's Railway Companion timetable

1843

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Water from the River Jordan

1881

Rectangular snuff box

1850-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Shell-shaped mother of pearl snuff box with metal hinged lid

1820-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Circular papier mache snuff box with detachable lid

1801-1890

Enema syringe

1831-1870

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850