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

1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1846

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

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

1934

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

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Ore-furnace slag from Whiston Copper Works

1849

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Copy of a Drawing 'His Portrait, Pedro Orrente', by Tessin

1847-08-31

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

1849

Coloured lithograph showing Box tunnel

1846

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Sir Henry De la Beche V.P.R.S.

1848

Coloured lithograph; Britannia Tubular Bridge over Menai Straits

1849

Knaresborough Viaduct

1847

Chester and Holyhead Railway. Coloured Lithograph by J. Newman. "Bangor

1850