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

1780-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1846

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

model steam locomotive

1826

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808