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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

1808

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

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

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

1825

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1815

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

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

1801

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

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)

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96