Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

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

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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 spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Etching, The Triumph of Gas Lights

1810

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

1857-06

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

The Fool Plough

1813

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Model, of Sir Edward Belcher's anchor

1815

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Token, copper, 35mm diameter. Keighley penny

1812

Portrait engraving of William Nicholson, 1812

1812

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Small lead medal

1810

Silver medal

1814

Sepia aquatint. Pont Cysyllte aqueduct. I. Havell after E. Pugh

1814

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Lithograph, A Mill at Colebrook Dale

1813

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Trade token

1817

Print, Aquatint from George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Etching: Aber-dulas mill. By G. Wood. 1812

1812

Oval silver membership medal

1815

Silver medal

1816-1817