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

1820

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

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

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Undershot waterwheel

1820

Orrery planetary model designed by William Pearson, 1813-1822

1813-1822

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Roberts lathe accessories

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Standard Peck Measure

1819

Standard Bushel Measure

1819