Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Sans Pareil

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'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

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1820

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815