Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

model locomotion no 1

1825

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

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

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

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1815

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Brass framed repeating circle with case.

1815-1825

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale

1816

Glass perfume bottle, oval body,1824

1824

Leather case for automatic lancet, c.1825

1820-1825

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE