Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Huskisson Memorial
1831
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway
1837
Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die
1837
London & Birmingham Railway clock
1837
Slotting machine
1835
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph
1837
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Silver lancet case, empty
1833
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology
1831
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834
1834
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
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837
1837
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837
1837
model passenger locomotive 1837
1837
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage
1834
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834
1834
'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
Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway
1833
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
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