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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

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

1770

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Orthopaedic corset, Europe, 1801-1880

1801-1880

Rocket locomotive

1829

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

1774-1831

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854