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Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Sans Pareil

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'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
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

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

1820

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1990-95

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

1815

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

1705-1737
active 1829-1928, surgical instrument maker, London, England, British

Arnold and Sons

1829 - 1928

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979

Swan, Joseph Wilson

1828 - 1914

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

Stirling's hot air engine, c. 1816.

1811-1826
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852

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

1580-1588; 1930
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814