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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

Euston Station gates

1838

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

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

model steam locomotive

1826

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837