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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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (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

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Slotting machine

1835

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

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

1826

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

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

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

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837