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Sans Pareil

1829

Rocket locomotive

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

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

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1870-1877

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)