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Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Euston Station gates

1838

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

1839

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1839-1840

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846

1837-1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Calotype Camera

1838-1848

The Reading Establishment Panorama (Right Half)

1845-1847

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

1851

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Print. Chinese nobleman with bamboo ribbed parasol umbrella

circa 1840