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Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837