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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1825

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

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

1705-1737

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

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

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

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

1880-120

Five lancets

1822

Four lancets

1824

Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823

1823

2 lancets

1821

Sterling silver pap boat

1819

Silver lancet case, empty

1822

Two lancets

1824

2 lancets

1822

4 lancets

1826

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Lancet case

1819-1820