Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820
1820
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
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
Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.
1812
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Silver Regency tripod mustard pot
1811-1812
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes
1813
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
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
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Cornish penny token, 1811.
1811
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837
1837-10
Magic Lantern with Modified Back
1820
Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'
1850-1899
Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses
1819
The Costume of Yorkshire
1814
Undershot waterwheel
1820
Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus
1774; 1923
Standard Peck Measure
1819
Standard Bushel Measure
1819
Standard Gallon Measure
1819
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Richard Trevithick
1816