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

1820

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

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)

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Bronze medal commemorating J. Domenico Cassini

1823

Bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal

1821

Bronze medal commemorating J. Sylvain Bailly

1821

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

Silver medal of the Compagnie d'Assurance Mutuelle Contre L'Incendie

1820

Bronze medal depicting Hermann Boerhaave

1819

Bronze medal by F. Caunois commemorating Baron Georges Cuvier

1820

Circular bronze medal

1821

Gilt bronze medal

1817

Bronze medal

1823

Bronze medal

1817

Circular bronze medal

1819

Portrait. J. Brookes. Engraving 1822

1822

Daniell hygrometer

1822

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

1822

Yard and Ell Bed, 1821

1821

Sovereign coin of George III

1817

19th Century Electioneering Token for Sir William Ingilby

1823

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Sovereign coin of George III

1818

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Illustrated billhead

1821

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Pewter lid from a lavabo, perhaps Swiss, 1823

1823