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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

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

1846

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Britannia statue

1849

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

England and her Soldiers

1859

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Display case of specimens of cinchona micrantha bark

1838-1870

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Gordon universal type dental forceps

1835-1870