Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1820

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Refracting telescope on portable altazimuth mounting, with tripod and accessories

1822

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

Undershot waterwheel

1820

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Standard Peck Measure

1819

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

Standard Gallon Measure

1819

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Richard Trevithick

1816

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

1818

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Roman stone water main

30

Gentleman’s Hobby Horse, c. 1818

1818

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Quart Standard Measure

1819

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

silver plated bronze religious medallion

1816-1817

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Daisy

1864-04

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05