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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Phrenological head

1821

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

'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

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

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

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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 watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816