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Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1825

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1826

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'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

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Lancets in silver case

1826

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

Engraved lancet case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

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

Steel engraving

1830