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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

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

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 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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Bentall, Edward Hammond

1814 - 1898

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

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

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

Tie Sleeper

1815

Tie Sleeper

1815

Roman stone water main

30

Gentleman’s Hobby Horse, c. 1818

1818

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Quart Standard Measure

1819

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE