Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

1808

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

circa 1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

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

1801

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

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

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

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

1815

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Bronze medal to commemorate G.B. Morgagni (1682-17

1808