Huskisson Memorial
1831
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway
1833
Sans Pareil
1829
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
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840
1839-1840
Oersted Compass Needle, 1828
1828
Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840
1835-1840
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel
circa 1840
Chinese celestial clockwork globe
1830
Engraved lancet case
1826
Lancets in silver case
1826
Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832
1832
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1840
Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson
1829
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840
Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway
1839
Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage
1839
The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver
1837-1840
Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner
1830
Octant made of ebony and brass
1830-1835
'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832
1832
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838
1838
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister
1826
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character
1830
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830
1830
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Locomotion
1834-1836
Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace
1840
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Wooden model of a mercury compensated pendulum
1829
Model of P.S. 'Lord W. Bentinck'
1832
Wooden model of a screw
1828
Parts of apparatus for demonstrating thermoelectricity
1828