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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

1775-1785

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rocket locomotive

1829

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

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

1790-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Four-part plaster leg

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

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809