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Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

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

1820

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Phrenological head

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819

1819

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Double-mirror heliotrope (Spiegelkreutz-heliotrop) for geodetic work

1822

Daniell hygrometer

1822

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

1818

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Model, of Sir Edward Belcher's anchor

1815

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Engraving by J.H. Robinson after Hayton of George Parker Bidder (1806-78) of Devonshire Act 13'. Published by Colnaghi

1819

Sepia aquatint. Pont Cysyllte aqueduct. I. Havell after E. Pugh

1814

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Lithograph, A Mill at Colebrook Dale

1813