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Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

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

1846

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Napier's Bones

1690

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Rocket locomotive

1829

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

1774-1831

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787