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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

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

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

1832

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

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

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway... May 3rd, 1830

1830

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

The Pleasures of the Railroad

1831

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

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

Seal and stamp - New Romney Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd

1832

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Lithograph by Harvey Dutton of H.M.S. "St. George"

1830

Engraving of Thomas Telford

1831

The Viaduct Over the Sankey Canal

1831

Engraving of William Symington (1763-1831)

circa 1830