Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820
1820
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1821
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Phrenological head
1821
Stained plaster phrenological bust
1821
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery
1822
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
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
Phrenological head of Francis Gall
1823
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
Description of a Railway on a New Principle
1823
Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses
1819
May - Study No 167
1870-10
Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List
1883-01
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Photograph of Fern Leaf
1836-02
Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel
1872-08
Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale
1816
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823
1823
2 lancets
1821
Wood tobacco pipe
1860-1820
Lancet case
1819-1820
Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate
1816
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner
circa 1820
Uterine probe
1901-950
Panmetron, "universal scale" for measurement and calculation invented by James Jordan
1823
Silver vinaigrette
1818
Gold cased watch by Brookhouse and Tunnicliffe
1823
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet
1823
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Mr. Sadler
1815
Set of money scales in sharkskin case
1820
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500