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Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

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

1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Commemorative Mug

1832

Railway-inspired mug, c. 1831

circa 1831

Uterine probe

1901-950

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Roman stone water main

30

table of rates and charges

1857/07

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

1883-01

Medal, bronze, cholera epidemic

1832

Bronze medal to commemorate G. Cuvier (1769-1832)

1832

Portrait lithograph print of Claude Louis Berthollet, 1832

1832

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Silver medal commemorating cholera commission of Amsterdam

1832

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Replicas of copper disc

1831

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120