Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

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

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

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

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Lancets in silver case

1826

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Engraved lancet case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel

1831

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Engraving: Interior of an Iron Mine in Sweden by L. Byrne after Martin. Published by Cadell

1822

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)

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Railway Commemorative Mug

1830-1836

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland

1822