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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Cholera Preventive Costume', print, England, 1832

1832

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets

1831

A plan and section of the railway from Liverpool to Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster

1829

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

1829

Bunbury's Whims

1828

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Medal commemorating the 'Bridge at Newton'

1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

A lesson on perspective in the academy of drawing and painting

1832

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Model of disc engine.

c.1830

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05