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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1826

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

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model steam locomotive

1826

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway... May 3rd, 1830

1830

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

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid

1829

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964