Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1797-1804

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800

Pocket surgical instrument set

1796

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Spy Glass (c.1800) by Ramsden London

1800

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

Body tube of nautical refracting telescope

1800

Pine wood circular stand, with plaster gilt decoration

1790-1800

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Medal, silvered metal

1798-1802

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Lead (?) medal to commemorate Aloysius Galvani, by

1803

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01