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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
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Date

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

'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

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Glass perfume bottle, oval body,1824

1824

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

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Three bladed fleam

1824

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

1823

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

Mrs Graham's account of her ascent from Norwich with Lieut. Col. Harvey

1825

Engraving; handbill

1825

Mr. and Mrs. Graham's perilous situation after their ascent from Stonehouse Market-place, Plymouth, and loss of balloon

1825

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Poster of balloon ascent at Newcastle: Charles Green

1825

1 bushel measure

1824

Bronze one inch standard

Pre-1824

Marine barometer by Newman, 1824.

1824

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

1/2 gill measure

1824