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

1780-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of human eye

1870

Huskisson Memorial

1831

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1853-1857

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Divers Projets

1798

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848