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Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Phrenological head

1821

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Richard Trevithick

1816

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

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

1830

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

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

Royal Mail Coach

1815-1830

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

1580-1588; 1930

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

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

2000-1001 BCE

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

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

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Wooden model of a mercury compensated pendulum

1829

Wooden model of a screw

1828

Parts of apparatus for demonstrating thermoelectricity

1828

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Model of a geared capstan incorporating epicyclic gearing

1820-1830

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Portable hydrostatic balance by Tuther

1820

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Bust of bearded man

1811

Round Wood box (c. 1820-30)

1820-1830

Contact goniometer, c.1830.

1830

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

model, scale 1:2, segmental turning lathe

1830