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model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

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

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

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

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1820

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812