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'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

1797-1804

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Half-penny coin

1799

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

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

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s