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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1825

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

'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

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

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

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

2500 BCE

Half- Quarter Repeater Pocket Watch by Thomas Earnshaw, 1810-1823

hallmarked 1823

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Official Standard set of fifteen brass counterpoises

1824

hammer head. C.1820

1820

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Medal, bronze, commemorating the salvation from plague and pestilence in Barcelona

1823

Bronze medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Circular gold medal

1819

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Ready reckoner, c 1820.

circa 1820

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Hot Goose, Cabbage & Cucumbers

1823

Bate's standard saccharometer with wire stem; with one poise and one weight

1823

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Daniell hygrometer by Newman, 1819.

1819