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Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot

1872

Medal commemorating Franz Joseph Gall

1805

Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Sheffield workhouse penny

1813

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Solar Corona 1875 April 6

1875

Drawing of Walter Bourne, East Indian Railway Resident Engineer, Mugra District, India

1857

Massey's patent ships' log

1854-1857

Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain living in the years 1807-1808

1862

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Contraceptive sheath, 1800-1850.

1801-1850

Cloud study by Luke Howard

1803-1811

Railway Commemorative Mug

1830-1836

Scarificator with 13 lancets, French, early 19th Century

1813

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp

after 1857

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

The Black Country

1869

Earth Inductor, 1850-1875

1850-1875

Cystoseira granulata

1843-1853

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Collection of engineering drawings from the Great Western Railway (GWR) Engineer's Office of railway buildings and railway machinery

1837-1867

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister

1830-1850

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Blue and white feeding cup, Staffordshire, England, 1820-1860

1820-1860

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

circa 1870

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Beam engine and associated component

1820-40

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Glass Harmonica

1862

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Florence Nightingale's moccasins, 1850-1856

1850-1856

Great Western Railway (GWR) second class carriage drawing

circa 1850

Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland

1822

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Boneshaker' bicycle

1868

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Whitworth's self-acting screw feed reversing tool box planing machine

Whitworth's self-acting screw feed reversing tool box planing machine, 1842.

1842