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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Railway bridge section

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1849

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1934

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

Ore-furnace slag from Whiston Copper Works

1849

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

1849

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Coloured lithograph; Britannia Tubular Bridge over Menai Straits

1849

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

1850

Interior of the Central Railway Station, Newcastle

1850

Circular silver prize medal

1849

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Ice skate of about 1850

circa 1850

Haighton obstetrical forceps

1870-1850

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Uterine probe

1901-950

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

1849

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Two washers

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