'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
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
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps
1813
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
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
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Tin can used for the early preservation of food
1812
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.
1812
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930
1701-1800
Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes
1813
Hull lead works penny token, 1812.
1812
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Working model of Hero's Aeolipile
100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914
Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India
1856-11
Birmingham workhouse three pence token, 1813.
1813
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.
1501-1600; 1972
The Collier
1813
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb
1991-1783 BCE
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.
1783; 1914
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777
1777 (original); 1894 (model)
The Costume of Yorkshire, Leech finders
1814
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Model of a Printing Press, 1701-1800
1701-1800; 1982
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
door knocker from the Great Hall of Lewis's Department Store
1870-1800