Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

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

1808

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

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

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

Weights and measures

1805

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1815

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

1705-1737

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

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

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Pewter lid from a lavabo, perhaps Swiss, 1823

1823

Reproduction in wood, male profile bust

1809

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Spy Glass (c.1820)

1820