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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Single-needle block instrument

1845

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

1834