Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1820

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Plaster phrenological head of Sir William Edward Parry

1827-1850

Vaccination lancet, London, England, 1822-1850

1822-1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Slotting machine

1835

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851