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

1839

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1839-1840

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

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

1820

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

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

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

1870-1877

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

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

1835-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine

1832