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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

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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)

Rocket locomotive

1829

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1820

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Slotting machine

1835

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

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

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Hand loom

1825-1835

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832