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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Phrenological head

1821

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

1820

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

'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

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1818

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

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

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Plan 1824

1824-11-20

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

A pilentum or Lady's accelerator

1818-1822

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE