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Category
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Date

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Phrenological head

1821

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

1822

Daniell hygrometer

1822

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Portrait. J. Brookes. Engraving 1822

1822

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

1820

Yard and Ell Bed, 1821

1821

Copy of apparatus used by Ampere to demonstrate that a current carrying conductor

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple microscope adapted for viewing living opaque objects

1820

Spy Glass (c.1820)

1820

Engraving, View of the Observatory erected over the Cross of St. Pauls

1821

Engraving: View of the great mine of copper at Fahlun... By L. Byrne after Martin. Published by Cadell

1822

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

1822

Engraving, An interior view of John Bunyman's Meeting House Southwark - In its present state

1822

Wheatstone's harmonic diagram

1821

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Set of money scales in sharkskin case

1820

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Illustrated billhead

1821

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

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

1972-3