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Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804