Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Charcoal-burning portable ornamental box foot warmer

1750-1850

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Full upper denture

1780-1850

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

1800-1850

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785