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Sans Pareil

1829

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Phrenological head

1821

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

England and her Soldiers

1859

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855