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Plaster cast, Venus

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Egyptian head

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Plaster bust of Niobe

1790-1819

plaster cast of hand

1790-1819

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Sans Pareil

1829

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Britannia statue

1849

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Mrs. Sage

1785

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

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

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

1775-1794

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844