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A new map of Great Britain; particularly shewing the Inland Navigation

1844

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Fleam with brass case and three steel blades by Joseph Rogers and Sons

1800-1830

Phrenological head and penholder, England, 1829-1850

1829-1850

Plane table outfit including alidade

1801-1830

Stephenson Family Recipe Book

? 1820-1849

Whale oil lamp, c 1840.

1835-1845

Nautical slide rule for weights of wire

1830-1860

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870-09

Lord Kelvin's mirror galvanometer with lamp and stand, 1858.

1858

Levret type obstetrical forceps, Paris, France, 1801-1850

1801-1850

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

The Double Lock... Regent's Canal

1827

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

circa 1826

The Costume of Great Britain: Lamplighter

1808

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

2050-1750 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

2000-1350 BCE

Acheulian flint hand axe, c 10000-5000 BC.

10000-5001 BCE

Transit circle by Edward Troughton, London, with a micrometer eyepiece and accessories

1806

'Dr James Barry MD', drawing, Europe, 1845-1855

1845-1855

The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer, ‘Comet’, by John Robertson and David Napier, Glasgow, Scotland, 1812

The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer

1812

Wheatstone's artificial voice-box

1835

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Mechanical lantern slide of the Solar System

1838

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

North Eastern coalfield: colliery pit-head and coking ovens [1]

1845

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of old York Railway Station

1858

Lord of the Isles

1851

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

First Steam Fire Engine Constructed in England AD 1830

1830

Coloured lithograph showing Engine House at Swindon

1846

Print, etching of early railways: Opening of the First English Railway…

1825

Nuremberg-Fuerth railway

1835-1836

Leyden jar, early 19th century.

1800-1850

Bent Mercury Thermometer, 1850-1920

1836-1846

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

1851

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

1831

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805