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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

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

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

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

1822-1840

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

circa 1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Hand loom

1825-1835

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

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

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

1812

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver lancet case, empty

1833