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Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

1795-1820

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Rocket locomotive

1829

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Grasshopper Engine

1840

Plane table outfit including alidade

1801-1830

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Ticket Printing Machine. Edmondson. c.1840. Painted dark green. Dimensions 16x27x54"

Edmondson Ticket Printing machine

1835-1845

Bound volume of 12 patents

1827-1856

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

Views on the London & North Western Railway

1848

Three Newcastle-on-Tyne Colliery Way Bills

1800-1830

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Henry John Stedman Cotton

1867

Amputation set

1822-1861

Mahogany wet-plate camera with 4 double dark slide film holders & focussing screen

circa 1860

Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

1850

Medal awarded at the London Exhibtion of 1862

1862

Replica of Camera used by W H Fox Talbot

1839

Replica of apparatus used by Ohm to prove Ohm's Law

1826