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Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

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

1700-1850

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1849

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Frame saw

1700-1800

Tinder pistol in egg-shaped

1700-1850

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Small amputation saw by Braun, c.1730

1701-1800

Plaster phrenological head of Sir William Edward Parry

1827-1850

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

circa 1800

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1834

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752