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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

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

1775-1785

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Divers Projets

1798

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780