Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
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
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Slotting machine
1835
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
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
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
'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)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Huskisson Memorial
1831
Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway
1833
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
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
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Crawling Beetle Phenakistoscope Disc
1833
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC
2800 BCE
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine
1832
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph
1870-09
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
The Demolition of Old London Bridge 26 January 1832
1832
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE