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Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

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

1820

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1812

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

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

1815

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

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

1820

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

1819

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Magic Lantern with Modified Back

1820

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870-09

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

French folding fan with a satirical scene of the comet of 1811

1811-1815

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931