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Collection
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Object type
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Place of origin
Archive
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Rocket locomotive

1829

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Slotting machine

1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Phrenological head

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

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

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

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Expedition Crane

1764

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

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830