Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Hand loom

1825-1835

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

1820

model locomotion no 1

1825

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Slotting machine

1835

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

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

1826

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

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

1825

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829