Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

model locomotion no 1

1825

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Half-penny coin

1806

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

'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

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Lancets in silver case

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Engraved lancet case

1826