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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

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

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1815

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Cornish penny token, 1811.

1811

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin

1809 Sept 14

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Two aquatints after Rowlandson and Pugin

1808

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01