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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Britannia statue

1849

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Sans Pareil

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

George III's weighted cylinder

1762