Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1849

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1850

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

1870-1877

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Automaton monkey

1850

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Gilt medal by Jouvenel commemorating Rembert Dodoens

1847-1850

Silver plated bronze medal to commemorate the 9th Reunion of Italian Scientists

1847

Medal commemorating Michael Skjelderup

1849

Medal commemorating Alexander von Humboldt

1847

Lithograph: Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits

1849

Arch over Dean Street, Newcastle on Tyne

1848

Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits

1849

Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits

1848

Medal, bronze, prize or national award for work or assistance during cholera outbreak in Belgium

1849

Lithograph, " Dee Viaduct - Vale of Llangollen"

1848

Conway Tubular Bridge

1848

Electro-galvanic battery (medical coil)

1850

Chamberlain's Improved Drawing Board

1849