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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Slotting machine

1835

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

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

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

'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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1830

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Letter, Isambard Kingdom Brunel to G.H. Wollaston, 13 February 1834

1834

Fantascope disc

1833

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

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

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

1833