Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Fern Leaf

1852

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Replica life mask of Taupua Te Whanoa

1853-1854

Jenny Lind

1852

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Uterine probe

1901-950

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Roman stone water main

30

table of rates and charges

1857/07

Great Western Railway (GWR) 8-wheeled composite carriage drawing

1852-02-15

Daguerreotype of John Avery Stranded In Rapids Above Niagara

1853

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Stereoscopic photographs and designs in box

1852

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Model in brass of two-bladed screw-propeller

1854

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE