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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1840

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833