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Category
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Material
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Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Britannia statue

1849

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Phrenological head

1821

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

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

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Railway bridge section

1850