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Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Phrenological head

1821

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1818

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

1812

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820

circa 1820

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal commemorating life and work of Charles Bonnet

1823

Bronze medal to commemorate the circumnavigation of the world by the French corvette "La Coquille"

1822

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Circular silver alloy token

1817-1820

Bronze medal commemorating Baron Georges de Cuvier

1820

Bronze medal presented in 1822nto Dr. Heinrich Meyer by D. Loos

1822

Bronze medal to commemorate H. Boerhaave

1821

Medal commemorating Ambroise Pare for series "Galerie Metallique des Grands Hommes Francais"

1819

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Circular bronze medal

1822

Medal to commemorate Galileo Galilei

1818

Bronze medal to commemorate the founding of the Institution pour les Jeunes Orphelins

1823

Circular bronze medal

1821