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Category
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Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

1808

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Bronze medal commemorating J. Domenico Cassini

1823

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Bronze medal to commemorate G.B. Morgagni (1682-17

1808