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Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

circa 1840

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

1837

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

1834

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1838

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Euston Station gates

1838

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1839

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832