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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

1849

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Railway bridge section

1850

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Eclipse

1841

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1846

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1841

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850