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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1797-1804

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1808

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

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

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1801

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE