Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
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
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
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820
1820
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery
1822
Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy
1820
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
Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1821
Near Wellington, Shropshire
1821
Phrenological head
1821
Stained plaster phrenological bust
1821
Richard Trevithick
1816
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
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
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933
1900-1933
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Votive plaque with right ear in relief
400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief
100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Portable hydrostatic balance by Tuther
1820
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief
100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware dish
2000-1350
Alabaster kohl pot
2000-1350
Calf's Head Weight
1370-1350 BCE; 1931
Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse
30-200
Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531
1931; 250 BCE
Set of money scales in sharkskin case
1820