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model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

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

circa 1800

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1825

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

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

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

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

1826

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Lancets in silver case

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829