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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

1820

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Lancets in silver case

1826

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

1832

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830