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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rocket locomotive

1829

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

1826

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

1820

Hand loom

1825-1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

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

1829

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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