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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

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

1808

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

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

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Hand loom

1825-1835

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Euston Station gates

1838

1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

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

1820

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

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

1832