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Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1705-1737

'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)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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

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

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Sans Pareil

1829

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine

1832

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Implements animated in the kitchen

circa 1830

A Cooper

1829

The Progress of Steam

1828

Brass Tinder box engraved with scene satirising steam power

circa 1830

Engraving, hand coloured. View in the Regent's Park; East Gate

1828

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Contact goniometer, c.1830.

1830

The March of Intellect

1829

Replicas of copper disc

1831

Ellis aquatic microscope

1830

Bate's Saccharometer (c. 1860)

1830

Scene Royal Institution

1831-1832

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

"Bate's Patent Saccharometer" (c. 1830) signed BATE POULTRY LONDON

1830

Engraving, Dolcoath copper mine Cornwall

1831

View of suspension bridge at Marlow

1830

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Tandy & Bailey Wolverhampton"

1830

Print, Intersection Bridge on the St. Helen's to Runcorn Gap Railway

1832