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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Locomotion

1834-1836

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Slotting machine

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'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)

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

1829

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

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Rocket locomotive

1829

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

A lesson on perspective in the academy of drawing and painting

1832

Lithograph of Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage

circa 1829