Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Slotting machine

1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

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

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Eclipse

1841

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Plaster phrenological head of Sir William Edward Parry

1827-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model railway turntable

1850

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

1838

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Hand loom

1825-1835