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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

London & Birmingham Railroad. / T.T. Bury

1837

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Faraday's specific inductive capacity apparatus, 1837, replica

1837

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2000-100 BCE

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

1883-01

Columbian Printing Press, 1837.

1837

Portions of Rowland Hill's Rotary Printing Machine, 1835

1835

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Commemorative Mug, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1836

Commemorative Mug

1836

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Daisy

1864-04

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10