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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Phrenological head

1821

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

1808

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

model locomotion no 1

1825

model steam locomotive

1826

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

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

1820

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

1826

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

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

1812

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830