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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Phrenological head

1821

Hand loom

1825-1835

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1820

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Slotting machine

1835

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

1826

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

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

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815