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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

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

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Slotting machine

1835

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834