Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Hydrometer by Robert Atkins

1803

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

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

1802

Ralph Walker

1803

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Portrait. Erasmus Darwin. Engraving 1803

1803

Etching, col. caricature : Lunar Speculations [Napoleon]/S W Fores

1803

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Matthew Boulton

1803

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

John Joseph Merlin, the Celebrated Mechanic

1803

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

M Garnerin's parachute

1802

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Nipple shield

1803

Sterling silver pap boat

1803

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

door knocker from the Great Hall of Lewis's Department Store

1870-1800

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802

Half-Guinea coin of George III

1803