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

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Rocket locomotive

1829

Slotting machine

1835

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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)

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1846

Half-penny coin

1806

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

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

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831