Phrenological head
1821
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Gold watch by Robert Roskell
1814
'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820
1820
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold
1821
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
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Phrenological head of Francis Gall
1823
Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery
1822
Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes
1813
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1821
Near Wellington, Shropshire
1821
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
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
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Stained plaster phrenological bust
1821
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper
1819
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Magic Lantern with Modified Back
1820
Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC
2800 BCE
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818
1818
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph
1870-09
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Etching-coloured `A London Nuisance'
1822