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Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1820

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

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

1815

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

J.C. Dyer, Esqr.

1810-1819

Francois Peron, Naturaliste et Redacteur du

1810

Token, copper, 35mm diameter. Keighley penny

1812

Portrait engraving of William Nicholson, 1812

1812