Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

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

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Slotting machine

1835

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830