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Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

model locomotion no 1

1825

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1825

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

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

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

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

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

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

1705-1737

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

'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 Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

A Plan and Section of an intended Railway or Tram-Road from Liverpool to Manchester

1824-1830

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Gum lancet and tenaculum

1823-1830

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Fillet interlocking

1830