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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Britannia statue

1849

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807