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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Hand loom

1825-1835

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Phrenological head

1821

Rocket locomotive

1829

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Slotting machine

1835

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1820

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835