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Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Bell from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Smoking

1832

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

Telecommunications

1835-1840

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

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

Telecommunications

1839-1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wo

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1840

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

George Cruikshank

1832

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1835

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

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

Road Transport

1830

Signal lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Silver lancet case, empty

Therapeutics

1833

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

Thomas Creswick

1837-1840

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

Bourne, John Cooke

1839

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

Railway Models

1839

Model of Wood's cross bar signal

Railway Models

1840

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839

Model railway ball signal, Great Western Railway

Railway Models

1837