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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

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

Glass perfume bottle, oval body,1824

1824

Leather case for automatic lancet, c.1825

1820-1825

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823

1823

2 lancets

1821

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Lancet case

1819-1820

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

Uterine probe

1901-950

Three bladed fleam

1824

Panmetron, "universal scale" for measurement and calculation invented by James Jordan

1823

Silver vinaigrette

1818

Gold cased watch by Brookhouse and Tunnicliffe

1823

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Portrait. John Wallis. Engraving 1825

1825

Aquatic microscope. Date about 1825

1825

Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet

1823