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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

1780-1850

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Phrenological head

1821

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

1770

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819