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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Rocket locomotive

1829

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Phrenological head

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

1820

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

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

1797-1804

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

circa 1800

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Four-part plaster leg

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808