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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Phrenological head

1821

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

1820

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

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

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1818

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

The Costume of Yorkshire, Leech finders

1814

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

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)