Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820
1820
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps
1813
Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.
1812
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
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
Silver Regency tripod mustard pot
1811-1812
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
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
Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor
1815
Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks
1812
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Portrait print from engraving of Peter Dollond, 1820
1820
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Tin can used for the early preservation of food
1812
Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930
1701-1800
Movement with double wheel duplex escapement by Charles Vincent
1820
Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne
1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Panoramic lantern slide
1820
Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company
1889-02
Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses
1819
The Costume of Yorkshire
1814
Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus
1774; 1923
Standard Peck Measure
1819
Standard Bushel Measure
1819
Standard Gallon Measure
1819
Richard Trevithick
1816
Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818
1818
Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817
1817