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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1785-1790

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

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

1853-1857

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Phrenological head

1821

Rocket locomotive

1829

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

Hand loom

1825-1835

Painted mask from Kolam masked play

1771-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Gordon universal type dental forceps

1835-1870

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Enema syringe

1831-1870