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

1820

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

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

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

1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

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

1705-1737

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin

1809 Sept 14