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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Hand loom

1825-1835

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Phrenological head

1821

Rocket locomotive

1829

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

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

1808

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Plaster phrenological head of Sir William Edward Parry

1827-1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

model locomotion no 1

1825