Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Britannia statue

1849

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

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

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

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

1802

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1834

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

1834

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

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

1808

Model railway turntable

1850

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845