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Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

1820

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

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

1825

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829