Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Hand loom

1825-1835

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

1820

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Slotting machine

1835

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

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

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Sans Pareil

1829