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
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Railway bridge section
1850
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Model railway turntable
1850
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
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Britannia statue
1849
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Cranked lantern slide with moiré pattern
1850
Railway Notepaper
circa 1845
Photographic Brooch
circa 1850
All-Metal Camera Designed by Alexis Gaudin
circa 1845
Map of the Lancashire & Yorkshire North Eastern Railway shewing its connection with the exisiting and projected lines of the district
1846
Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company
1889-02