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Category
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Place
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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Hand loom

1825-1835

Euston Station gates

1838

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

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

1820

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

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

1832

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Slotting machine

1835

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837