Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

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

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

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

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

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

circa 1840

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

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1840

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

1837-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

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

1839

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE