Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

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

1820

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

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

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

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

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

1705-1737

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

2 lancets

1821

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Lancet case

1819-1820

Spy Glass (c.1820)

1820

Silver (plated?) medal commemorating 450th anniver

1820

Circular silver medal

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate General Blucher von Wahlstatt

1819

Bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

Silver medal to commemorate H. Meyer (1767-1828)

1819

Bronze medal commemorating J W Ellenberger

1820

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1883-01

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

Daisy

1864-04

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Edward Jenner's ivory vaccination points, England, 1821

1821

hammer head. C.1820

1820

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000