Camera obscura
1845-1855
Topping-type microtome, Europe, 1840-1850
1840-1850
Moon by James Nasmyth
1849
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830
1801-1830
Engraving: Interior of an Iron Mine in Sweden by L. Byrne after Martin. Published by Cadell
1822
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818
1818
Medal commemorating Franz Joseph Gall
1805
Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Sheffield workhouse penny
1813
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Drawing of Walter Bourne, East Indian Railway Resident Engineer, Mugra District, India
1857
Dundee halfpenny
1797
Massey's patent ships' log
1854-1857
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Contraceptive sheath, 1800-1850.
1801-1850
Cloud study by Luke Howard
1803-1811
Railway Commemorative Mug
1830-1836
Scarificator with 13 lancets, French, early 19th Century
1813
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853
Robert Fulton
1800-1809
Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp
after 1857
Cystoseira granulata
1843-1853
Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins
1843-1853
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840
1840
Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister
1830-1850
Park Green Mill Double Dialled Longcase Clock
1800-1820
Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth
1859
Blue and white feeding cup, Staffordshire, England, 1820-1860
1820-1860
Chinese celestial globe, 1830
1830
Machine for reproducing sculpture
1826
Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine
c.1825
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace
1840
The Comforts of a Rumford Stove
1800
Beam engine and associated component
1820-40
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794
1794
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Florence Nightingale's moccasins, 1850-1856
1850-1856
Great Western Railway (GWR) second class carriage drawing
circa 1850
Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland
1822
Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat
1860s
Curricle, early 19th century
1800-1825
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1816
Newcomen Atmospheric Engine
1791