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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

1808

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

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

1825

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1705-1737

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

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, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

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

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823