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

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

1846

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Sans Pareil

1829

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Phrenological head

1821

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Britannia statue

1849

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755