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Category
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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Slotting machine

1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1838

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842