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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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1801-1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

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

1808

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

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

1820

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

1815

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

active 1829-1928, surgical instrument maker, London, England, British

Arnold and Sons

1829 - 1928

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979

Swan, Joseph Wilson

1828 - 1914