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Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Sans Pareil

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'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

active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

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

1820

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

1990-95

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

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

active 1829-1928, surgical instrument maker, London, England, British

Arnold and Sons

1829 - 1928

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Swan, Joseph Wilson

1828 - 1914

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Novelty model

1955; 1830