Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1806

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Model hand loom for weaving sacks (and so on) without a seam (scale 1:8)

prob year of patent 1802

Compass

1800

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Tongue scaper

1805

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Gold Balance

1800-1805

Hydrometer by Robert Atkins

1803

William Woodville, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Medical Botany

1806

Mr. Lester, engineer

1804

Galvanism in Piccadilly

1800

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Fete du Sacre et Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales

1804-1805

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Spode"

circa 1800

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Circular bronze medal commemorates the work(?) of

1801

Compound and simple microscope

1800

Joseph Wright

1807