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Collection
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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1820

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Pewter lid from a lavabo, perhaps Swiss, 1823

1823

Bronze medal from prof. Giacomo Tommasini

1822

Bronze medal commemorating Carl de Geer

1823

Circular bronze medal

1822

Bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

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

1883-01

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

One of the advantages of gas over oil

1822

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Sovereign coin of George III

1817

19th Century Electioneering Token for Sir William Ingilby

1823

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Sovereign coin of George III

1818

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Double-mirror heliotrope (Spiegelkreutz-heliotrop) for geodetic work

1822

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

1818

Report to the Select Committee of the Moreton Rail-Road, on the Line of Railway from Stratford to Moreton in the Marsh

1821-08-31

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Portrait. J. Brookes. Engraving 1822

1822

Daniell hygrometer

1822

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Replica of Davy's apparatus showing rotation of mercury carrying a radial current in the presence of a magnet

1823

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Illustrated billhead

1821