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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Cast lead tobacco jar

1790-1860

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Hand loom

1825-1835

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1853-1857

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842