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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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

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

1705-1737

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Sans Pareil

1829

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

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

Letter, Isambard Kingdom Brunel to G.H. Wollaston, 13 February 1834

1834

Fantascope disc

1833

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Henry Kingsford of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway dated 12 June 1830

1830-06-12

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

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

1829

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

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

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834