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Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

'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

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

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

1815

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

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

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)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Medal, silvered metal

1817-1820

Bronze medal

1821

Silver (plated?) medal commemorating 450th anniver

1820

Engraving by J.H. Robinson after Hayton of George Parker Bidder (1806-78) of Devonshire Act 13'. Published by Colnaghi

1819

Bronze medal from prof. Giacomo Tommasini

1822

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Medal to commemorate Vesalius

1820

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Medal, gilt, bronze

1817

Silver medal

1822