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Category
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model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Slotting machine

1835

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Euston Station gates

1838

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

1883-01

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Syringe, silver, made in Birmingham in 1836

1836

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Silver lancet case, empty

1838

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

2 lancets

1836

Silver lancet case, empty

1838

Scalpel, silver handle

1838

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Transverse folding spectacles

1836-1838

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825