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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Plaster mould

1790-1819

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

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Socrates

1790-1819

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Plaster urn

1790-1819

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

1790-1819

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Plaster bust

1790-1819

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Plaster mould

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

1785-1790

Divers Projets

1798

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

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

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837