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Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Portrait print from engraving of Peter Dollond, 1820

1820

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Movement with double wheel duplex escapement by Charles Vincent

1820

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

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

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

Standard Peck Measure

1819

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

Standard Gallon Measure

1819

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

1818

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

Caution List of Convictions

1885-09

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

hammer head. C.1820

1820

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

Book, The climate of London : deduced from meteorological observations, made at different places in the neighbourhood of the metropolis by Luke Howard.

1818-1820

Book, The climate of London : deduced from meteorological observations, made at different places in the neighbourhood of the metropolis by Luke Howard.

1818-1820

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Gentleman’s Hobby Horse, c. 1818

1818

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Quart Standard Measure

1819

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Laboratory Flask

circa 1820

Glass Vial

circa 1820

Earthenware jug

2000-1350