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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

'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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1830

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

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

Bunbury's Whims

1828

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

The Rastrick Notebook

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