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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

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

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

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

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

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

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

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

2000-1000

Fillet interlocking

1830

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120