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'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1990-95

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

1705-1737

1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

1812

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Hull lead works penny token, 1812.

1812

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

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

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Cornish penny token, 1811.

1811

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Birmingham workhouse three pence token, 1813.

1813

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972

The Collier

1813

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

1812-1887, journalist; author; playwright, British.

Mayhew, Henry

1812 - 1887

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Dancer, John Benjamin

1812 - 1887

1812-1887, active 1835-1878, optician, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, British

Dancer, John Benjamin

1812 - 1887

The Costume of Yorkshire, Leech finders

1814