Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

1770

Locomotion

1834-1836

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

1774-1831

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Expedition Crane

1764

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Breast pump, Europe, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

Oval enamelled box, England, 1761-1820

1761-1820

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Steel bradawl with turned hickory handle, brass ferrule and securing nut

1758-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773