Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Phrenological head

1821

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

model steam locomotive

1826

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

1820

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Boundary marker from Stockton & Darlington Railway

circa 1821-1825

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828