Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1820

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE