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

1820

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

model locomotion no 1

1825

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

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

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

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

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

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Rickett, Thomas

1825

Bentall, Edward Hammond

1814 - 1898