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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

1831

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets

1831

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

Seal and stamp - New Romney Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd

1832

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving of Thomas Telford

1831

Scene Royal Institution

1831-1832

Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway: View of the depot looking South

1832

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Opening of the Glasgow & Garnkirk Railway

1831

Portrait of Christopher Tennant M.P.C.

1832

Bronze medal commemorating the tenth Convention of the Society of German Naturalists and Doctors

1832

Bronze medal

1832

Aquatint : [Ellesmere viaduct and canal] from Gestner's Mechanik

1832

Water-colour. South view of the Rectory-House

1831

Lithograph, The effects of the Rail Road on the Brute Creation

1831

Bronze medal

1832

Circular bronze medal with silk ribbon

1831

Medal, silver, awarded by the Cholera Commission of Amsterdam 1872

1832

Bronze medal by R. Gayrard

1832

Bronze medal by Emile Rogat expressing gratitude of town of Chateauroux after outbreak of cholera

1832

Bronze medal by J. Vatinelle awarded to A. Boisduval by the city of Paris

1832

Bronze medal

1832