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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Bridge link

1852

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

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

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

1934

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1846

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1850

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855