Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

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

1808

Hand loom

1825-1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Slotting machine

1835

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808