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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1837

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Slotting machine

1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal commemorating Michel Bregin who left

1834

Bronze medal

1832

Circular bronze medal

1834

Bronze medal

1831

Medal commemorates recovery from illness of the Prince of Orange

1835

Mantyon and Franklin Medal, 1833

1833

Bronze medal commemorating the erection of a statue to the Virgin Mary in grateful thanks

1836