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Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1825

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

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

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

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

1705-1737

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Bronze medal commemorating J. Domenico Cassini

1823

Bronze medal

1819

Silver medal to commemorate H. Meyer (1767-1828)

1819

Bronze medal

1821

Bronze medal commemorating J. Sylvain Bailly

1821

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

Medal, bronze, house surgeons prize of Paris School of Medicine

1810

Silver medal of the Compagnie d'Assurance Mutuelle Contre L'Incendie

1820

Bronze medal of Etienne Pariset by L. Dubour

1821-1825

Bronze medal by Vincenzo Catenacci commemorating Domenico Cotugno

1824

Bronze medal depicting Hermann Boerhaave

1819

Bronze medal by F. Caunois commemorating Baron Georges Cuvier

1820