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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet

1823

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mr. Sadler

1815

Set of money scales in sharkskin case

1820

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Bate's standard saccharometer with wire stem; with one poise and one weight

1823

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820