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Sans Pareil

1829

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Slotting machine

1835

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

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

1812

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hand loom

1825-1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817