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

circa 1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Eclipse

1841

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

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

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1835-1845

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1839

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835