Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

'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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

1815

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

1705-1737

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Spectacles

1812

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Coin Scale

1817

Coin scale

1817

Withymoor Scythe Works Token

1814

Scarificator with 13 lancets, French, early 19th Century

1813

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

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

Dr. William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer

1814

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

1820

Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

1819

Silver medal struck by the Parisian Butchers to commemorate King Louis XVIII by Andrieu

1816

Movement with lever escapement

1820

Robert Short with his 'stone'

1820

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Mezzotint portrait. Rev. William Farish

1815

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815

eight wooden geometrical models exhibiting the forms of crystals

1813

Copy of apparatus used by Ampere to demonstrate that a current carrying conductor

1820

Drawing of Gass Works

1812

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

silver plated bronze religious medallion

1816-1817