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Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

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

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Hand loom

1825-1835

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

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

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Slotting machine

1835

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

1838

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Commemorative medal, Grand Junction Railway

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829