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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set

1840-1860

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Pair of extending spectacles

1808-1840

Pastille burner in the shape of a house

1821-1850

Phrenological head

1821

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Nitrous oxide cylinder

1840-1868

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Water frame spindle

1800-1830

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

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

1801

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Rocket locomotive

1829

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936