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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1832

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (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

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

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

1831

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets

1831

A plan and section of the railway from Liverpool to Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster

1829

A lesson on perspective in the academy of drawing and painting

1832

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Seal and stamp - New Romney Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd

1832

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

1830

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Print showing Gurney's steam carriage on Highgate Hill

1828

'Rocket', 'Novelty' and 'Sans Pareil' at the Rainhill Trials

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Lithograph by Harvey Dutton of H.M.S. "St. George"

1830

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

1828