Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches
1801-1830
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1801
'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.
1780-1850
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Rocket locomotive
1829
Prototype of the Brougham carriage
1838
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Phrenological head
1821
'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin
1820-1840
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Half-penny coin
1799
Hand loom
1825-1835
Edward Jenner's lancets
1801-1823
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Trough battery, 1801-1838
1801-1838
Compass
1800
Marine chronometer by Brockbanks
1802
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Laennec's stethoscope
1815-1825
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Euston Station gates
1838
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon
1790-1831
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Britannia statue
1849
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830
1801-1830
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton
1840
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque
1840
Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station
1842
Railway bridge section
1850
Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway
1837