Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Half-penny coin

1806

Hand loom

1825-1835

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7