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

1820

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

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Standard Peck Measure

1819

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

Standard Gallon Measure

1819

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

Crab With Contrate Gear,in Iron Frame

1820

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Sterling silver pap boat

1819

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Silver and gold pap boat

1820

Lancet case

1819-1820

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Michael Faraday's chemical chest, c1820.

1820