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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1820

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Water frame spindle

1800-1830

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1815

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

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824