Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Silver lancet case, empty
1833
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834
1834
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
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology
1831
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Slotting machine
1835
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
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832
1832
'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832
1832
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Huskisson Memorial
1831
Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway
1833
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine
1832
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777
1777 (original); 1894 (model)
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
1836 - 1917
Fowler, William Henry
1807 - 1904
Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets
1831
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
A lesson on perspective in the academy of drawing and painting
1832