Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

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

2 lancets

1821

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

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

1990-95

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

Uterine probe

1901-950

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Set of money scales in sharkskin case

1820

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Bronze medal

1821

Silver (plated?) medal commemorating 450th anniver

1820

Medal to commemorate Vesalius

1820

Circular bronze medal

1821

Bronze medal

1822

Bronze medal

1820

Bronze medal commemorating H F X Belzunce

1821

Medal awarded by the French Georgaphy Society

1821

Silver medal of the Linnaean Society of Lyons

1822

Gold medal designed by E. Dubois at direction of De Puymaurin

1822

Bronze medal commemorating Baron Georges de Cuvier

1820