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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Phrenological head

1821

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Rocket locomotive

1829

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Eclipse

1841

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830