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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

model locomotion no 1

1825

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1705-1737

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Daniell hygrometer by Newman, 1819.

1819

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Franks Telescope

1815-1825

Kaleidoscope, by Philip Carpenter, Birmingham, with case

1815-1825

Refracting telescope on portable altazimuth mounting, with tripod and accessories

1822

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

Undershot waterwheel

1820

Experimental steel alloys made by Michael Faraday (1820-1824)

1820-1824

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Report to the Select Committee of the Moreton Rail-Road, on the Line of Railway from Stratford to Moreton in the Marsh

1821-08-31

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

Drawing of early gas-making plant

1815-1825

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817