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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1820

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Weights and measures

1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

model locomotion no 1

1825