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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

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

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

1832

Sans Pareil

1829

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1829

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Commemorative Jug, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

circa 1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

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

1883-01

Lithograph of Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage

circa 1829

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Silver lancet case, empty

1831

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Two lancets

1830

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Snuff box

1828

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Hand, folding spectacles, silver, English, 1829

1829

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

1830

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Lever escapement with crank roller

1830