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Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Plaster model of the lunar surface

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

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1841

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Silhouette of boy

1844-02-10

Draper's daguerreotype of Solar Spectrum

1842

Handbills

1841-1843

May - Study No 167

1870-10

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

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

1883-01

The New Great Western Timetable

1844

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

1730; 1967

Bradshaw's Railway Companion timetable

1843

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

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

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Silver lancet case, empty

1841

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Lancets

1841

Electro-motor invented by P.H. Desvignes in 1843. Size of base 12" by 9 3/4"

1843

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830