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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Locomotion

1834-1836

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Euston Station gates

1838

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)