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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

Bourne, John Cooke

1839

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. Telegraph Receiver, 1839-1840

Telecommunications

1839-1840

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Part of Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828

Surveying

1826-1828

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

Astronomy

1829

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

Railway Timepieces

1838

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

Railway Models

1839

Bell from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

Clockmakers

1823