Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Rocket locomotive

1829

Slotting machine

1835

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Phrenological head

1821

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

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

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

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

circa 1800

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Silver lancet case, empty

1833