Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Phrenological head

1821

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1820

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1815

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1815-1825

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

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

1990-95

Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

1819

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Magic Lantern with Modified Back

1820

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1818

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825