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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Half-penny coin

1806

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

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

1807

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 amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Half-penny coin

1806

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

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

1815

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

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

1705-1737

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804