Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

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

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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Hydrometer by Robert Atkins

1803

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

1806

Mr. Lester, engineer

1804

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Simple microscope in turned rosewood case (c.1810)

1810

Fete du Sacre et Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales

1804-1805

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

Davy's large electrolysis trough, 1810, replica

1810

Circular bronze medal commemorates the work(?) of

1801

Silver medal commemorating Joseph Ignace Guillotin

1807-1810

Joseph Wright

1807

Fire at the Albion Mills, Blackfriars Bridge on 3 March 1791

1808

London fireman of the Sun Fire Office

1805

Billingsgate Market

1808

Letterpress broadsheet : Monsieur Garnerin's Wonderful Descent by a Parachute

1802

Ralph Walker

1803

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730