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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

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750