Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Slotting machine

1835

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

1838

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Commemorative medal, Grand Junction Railway

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

1834

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

1834

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

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

1837

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Euston Station gates

1838

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1839

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837