'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
'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
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
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
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
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
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818
1818
Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Sheffield workhouse penny
1813
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
Scarificator with 13 lancets, French, early 19th Century
1813
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower
1979-80
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
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
Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus
1774; 1923
Standard Peck Measure
1819
Standard Bushel Measure
1819
Standard Gallon Measure
1819
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Richard Trevithick
1816
Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817
1817