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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

'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

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

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

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1818

Engraving: Interior of an Iron Mine in Sweden by L. Byrne after Martin. Published by Cadell

1822

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland

1822

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

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

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

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

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

2000-100 BCE

Richard Trevithick

1816

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967