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
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
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
Phrenological head
1821
Stained plaster phrenological bust
1821
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
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
Phrenological head of Francis Gall
1823
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
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
Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale
1816
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823
1823
2 lancets
1821
Wood tobacco pipe
1860-1820
Lancet case
1819-1820
Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate
1816
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner
circa 1820
Uterine probe
1901-950
Panmetron, "universal scale" for measurement and calculation invented by James Jordan
1823
Silver vinaigrette
1818
Gold cased watch by Brookhouse and Tunnicliffe
1823
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Toothbrush, silver, by I
1814
Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet
1823
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185