Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model steam locomotive

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Phrenological head

1821

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Silver medal of the Compagnie d'Assurance Mutuelle Contre L'Incendie

1820

Commemorative medal of salvation from Pestilence of Barcelona in 1821

1822

Bronze medal commemorating Carl de Geer

1823

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

1822

Sextant-heliotype, as invented by C.F. Gauss

1827

Altitude instrument patented by W. Barclay, 1825

1825

Marine barometer by Newman, 1824.

1824

Daniell hygrometer

1822

Brass adjustment component

1827

Brass adjustment component

1827

Brass component for Colby's compensation bars

1827

support for Colby's Compensation Bar

1827

Brass components

1827

Brass component

1827

Component of Colby's compensation bar

1827