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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model steam locomotive

1826

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

'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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

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

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

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

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95