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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

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1820

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

model steam locomotive

1826

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

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

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

Sans Pareil

1829

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825