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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

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Slotting machine

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

'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

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Medal, bronze, cholera epidemic

1832

Circular bronze medal

1834

Going to Hobby Fair

1835

Portrait lithograph print of Claude Louis Berthollet, 1832

1832

A 4pp letterpress with woodcut

1835

Silver medal commemorating cholera commission of Amsterdam

1832

Handbill advertising exhibitions of microscopy

1833

"McFarlane's Calculating Cylinder" (c. 1833)

1833

Thirty Oboli coin of the Ionian Islands

1834

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Two lira coin of Charles Albert (King of Sardinia)

1833

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Revolving mirror and gear-box drive used by Wheatstone

1834

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Gould microscope by Spear, Dublin, 1830-1840

1833

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Calico printing

circa 1834

Carding, drawing and roving

circa 1834

Swainson Birley Mill

circa 1834

Power loom weaving

circa 1834