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Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

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

'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)

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 spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

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

1701-1800

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

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

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

George William Manby Esqr

1813

Model, of Sir Edward Belcher's anchor

1815

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815