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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Weights and measures

1805

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Slotting machine

1835

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812