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Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Slotting machine

1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

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

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

'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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Rocket locomotive

1829

Medal, bronze, cholera epidemic

1832

Medal, silver, struck on death of Franz Joseph Gall

1828

Circular bronze medal

1834

Bronze medal to commemorate A. Liber

1834

Bronze medal to commemorate the Count of Wylich and Lottum

1834

Bronze medal

1830

Bronze medal to commemorate G. Cuvier (1769-1832)

1832

Bronze medal by Ludvig Persson Lundgren

1835

Bronze medal by Luigi Cossa

1835

Circular bronze medal to commemorate Baron von Humboldt

1829