Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

1705-1737

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1815

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Medal, bronze, by B. Wyon

1821

Trade card: Blunt

1822-1824

Withymoor Scythe Works Token

1814

Bronze medal

1818

British naval halfpenny

1812

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Portrait of Samuel Varley

1816

Portable hydrostatic balance by Tuther

1820

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

Bate's standard saccharometer with wire stem; with one poise and one weight

1823

Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet

1823

Dr. William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer

1814

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750