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

1770

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of human eye

1870

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

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

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

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

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

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

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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