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

1780-1850

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

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

1770

Sans Pareil

1829

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

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

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795