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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Socrates

1790-1819

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

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

1785-1790

Divers Projets

1798

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1808

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

1790-1820

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813