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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head

1821

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1820

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Half-penny coin

1806

Weights and measures

1805

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

circa 1800

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

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

1801

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

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1806

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800