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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

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

1834

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

1705-1737

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

London & Birmingham Railroad. / T.T. Bury

1837

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Faraday's specific inductive capacity apparatus, 1837, replica

1837

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

'A list of two thousand microscopic objects' book by Andrew Pritchard, England, 1835

1835

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01