Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Britannia statue

1849

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Pair of Queen Victoria's white satin slippers, England, 1840-1848

1840-1848

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

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister

1830-1850

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845