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great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Eclipse

1841

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

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

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

Britannia statue

1849

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1840

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846