Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1840

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Eclipse

1841

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

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

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1870-1877

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)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Print. Chinese nobleman with bamboo ribbed parasol umbrella

circa 1840

A scene in a library

1841-1844

Chess players

circa 1844

Benjamin Hick

1843

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE