Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology
1831
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway
1837
Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die
1837
London & Birmingham Railway clock
1837
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Slotting machine
1835
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834
1834
Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832
1832
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837
1837
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Silver lancet case, empty
1833
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837
1837
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage
1834
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834
1834
model passenger locomotive 1837
1837
Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph
1837
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Huskisson Memorial
1831
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway
1833
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832
1832
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
'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
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
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
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Locomotion
1834-1836
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Model of P.S. 'Lord W. Bentinck'
1832
Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933
1900-1933