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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

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

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

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

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Half-penny coin

1806

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

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)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Silhouette of man

circa 1810