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Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Plaster bust of Aristotle

1790-1819

Plaster bust of Niobe

1790-1819

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1801-1819

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Watch in an enamel case by Herbeau

1775-1800