Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Slotting machine

1835

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

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)

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185