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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1815

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

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

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Undershot waterwheel

1820

Roberts lathe accessories

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Roberts lathe part

1817-1823

Standard Peck Measure

1819