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

1820

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

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)

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

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)

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

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

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

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

1850-1899

Undershot waterwheel

1820

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

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Silver medal to commemorate H. Meyer (1767-1828)

1819

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Astronomical Lectures on his entirely New Eidouranion

1820

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185