Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

1812

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826