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
Novelty model
1955; 1830
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
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Deck watch by Breguet et Fils
1830
Portrait bust of Princess Victoria
1829
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
model steam locomotive
1826
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826
1826
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)
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
Oersted Compass Needle, 1828
1828
Chinese celestial clockwork globe
1830
Engraved lancet case
1826
Lancets in silver case
1826
Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832
1832
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson
1829
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
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister
1826
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character
1830
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830
1830
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Lister, Joseph
1827 - 1912
Wooden model of a mercury compensated pendulum
1829
Model of P.S. 'Lord W. Bentinck'
1832