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Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin

1820-1840

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Hand loom

1825-1835

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Euston Station gates

1838

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Cystoseira granulata

1843-1853

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit

1870s