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Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1808

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1820

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

1812

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1810-1812

1810-1812

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Half-penny coin

1806

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821