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Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

1820

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

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

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Phrenological head

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819

1819

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Double-mirror heliotrope (Spiegelkreutz-heliotrop) for geodetic work

1822

Daniell hygrometer

1822

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

1818

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

The Geological lecture room, Oxford

1823

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

1819

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Coloured aquatint: The cast iron bridge over the River Severn. Engraved by M Dubourg. Published by J Taylor

1823

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Bronze medal

1819

Portrait. J. Brookes. Engraving 1822

1822

Aquatint of 'The London Engineer'

1819

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

1820

Yard and Ell Bed, 1821

1821

Copy of apparatus used by Ampere to demonstrate that a current carrying conductor

1820

Sovereign coin of George III

1817

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Sovereign coin of George III

1818