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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Divers Projets

1798

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1797-1804

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

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

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Richard Arkwright

1790

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)