'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Phrenological head
1821
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
'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
Parkes, Alexander
1813 - 1890
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Morton, William Thomas Green
1819 - 1868
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery
1822
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
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
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
W and T Avery Limited
1813 - 1979
Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818
1818
Lovelace, Ada
1815 - 1852
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Snow, John
1813 - 1858
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Nightingale, Florence
1820 - 1910
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited
1818 - 1984
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Joule, James Prescott
1818 - 1889
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
Near Wellington, Shropshire
1821
Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930
1701-1800
Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes
1813
Siebe Gorman and Company Limited
1819 - 1999
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland
1822
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Howe, Elias
1819 - 1867