Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

1791

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Compass

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw

1795-1805

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1797-1804

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Eclipse

1841

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839