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'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

model steam locomotive

1826

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

model locomotion no 1

1825

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

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

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

Phrenological head

1821

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell (1828-1903) 1st Baronet Businessman and MP

1828 - 1903

Rickett, Thomas

1825

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Bentall, Edward Hammond

1814 - 1898

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904