Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

model locomotion no 1

1825

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1825

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

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

1826

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Lancets in silver case

1826

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Share Certificate of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1826

1826

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

London Vaccine Institution certificate, 1826.

1826

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Replica of apparatus used by Ohm to prove Ohm's Law

1826

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

1883-01

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Glass perfume bottle, oval body,1824

1824

Leather case for automatic lancet, c.1825

1820-1825

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823

1823

2 lancets

1821

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Lancet case

1819-1820