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Category
Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Half-penny coin

1806

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795