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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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)

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

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

1870-1877

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

Faraday's specific inductive capacity apparatus, 1837, replica

1837

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

Caution List of Convictions

1885-09

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Columbian Printing Press, 1837.

1837

Roman stone water main

30

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05