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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Rocket locomotive

1829

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)

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1830

Slotting machine

1835

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1838

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Euston Station gates

1838

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

1839

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

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

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829