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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

'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)

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

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

1870-1877

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1830

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

1990-95

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Railway Office, Liverpool

1831

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936