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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Phrenological head

1821

Rocket locomotive

1829

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

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

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

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

1812

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837