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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1832

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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 the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

The Pleasures of the Railroad

1831

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

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

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

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving of Thomas Telford

1831

The Viaduct Over the Sankey Canal

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