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Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head

1821

model steam locomotive

1826

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

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

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

View of the Railway from Hetton Colliery to the Depot

1823

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The Collier

1813

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Drawing of early gas-making plant

1815-1825

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Augustin Jean Fresnel (Physicien)

1824

Frederick W. Trench. A lithographic sketch of the North Bank of the Thames

1825

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819