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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Phrenological head

1821

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1820

Weights and measures

1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

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

1826

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

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

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Half-penny coin

1806

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812