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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1808

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1797-1804

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

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)

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

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

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815