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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Hand loom

1825-1835

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Rocket locomotive

1829

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

1774-1831

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

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1808

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

1796-1798

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830