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Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Divers Projets

1798

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1797-1804

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE