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Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

'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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Medal, bronze, cholera epidemic

1832

Bronze medal

1830

Bronze medal to commemorate G. Cuvier (1769-1832)

1832

Portrait lithograph print of Claude Louis Berthollet, 1832

1832

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Silver medal commemorating cholera commission of Amsterdam

1832

Heliograph by Cary, c.1830

1830

Coin of Charles Felix (King of Sardinia)

1830

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Tandy & Bailey Wolverhampton"

1830

Unifilar variation compass and magnetometer by Robinson

1830

James Nasmyth

circa 1830s

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

"Alexanders Graphic Mirror"

1830

Contact goniometer, c.1830.

1830

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Silver lancet case, empty

1831

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800