Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Hand loom

1825-1835

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

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

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

1820

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

Slotting machine

1835

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

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

1826

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

1825

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

1834

East Indiaman Herefordshire

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

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824