Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850. Telecommunications 1850
Henson's Flying Machine model [1843] William Henson's model of his 'Aerial Steam Carriage' Aeronautics 1845-1847
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway Signalling & Telecommunications 1840
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE Classical & Medieval Medicine 2050-1750 BCE
Keystone from a decorative arch at South Stockton station on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, about 1842. The face of the stone depicts the head of an old, bearded man surrounded by vines and ivy, probably a Green Man or perhaps the Greek and Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus. On the reverse of the stone are bunches of grapes and vine leaves. Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station Railway Infrastructure 1842
Working model of the double trunk steam engines, as used on HMS 'Minotaur (1867) and HMS 'Northumberland' (1868) Marine Engines 1845
