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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 of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head

1821

Rocket locomotive

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

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

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1820

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Hand loom

1825-1835

model locomotion no 1

1825

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Slotting machine

1835

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

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

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)