Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Phrenological head

1821

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1837

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

1800-1850

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Eclipse

1841

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

1808

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Vaginal speculum

1801-1850

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Model railway turntable

1850

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837