Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model locomotion no 1

1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

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

1705-1737

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

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Augustin Jean Fresnel (Physicien)

1824

Frederick W. Trench. A lithographic sketch of the North Bank of the Thames

1825

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

2000 BCE

Engraving. Plan

1824

Bronze medal commemorating a charitable organisation or society

1825

Lithograph, The Railway at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire

1825

The Geological lecture room, Oxford

1823

Mr. Peter Nicholson

1825

Portrait, part of the Woodcroft Collection "Gallery of Portraits" etc. Wilson Lowry. Engraving by Linnell

1825

Bronze medal from prof. Giacomo Tommasini

1822

Coloured aquatint: The cast iron bridge over the River Severn. Engraved by M Dubourg. Published by J Taylor

1823

Portrait. Charles Hutton. Engraving 1824

1824

Silver medal

1822

Bronze medal by Loos and Koenig commemorated Lorenz Oken and Society of German Naturalist Practitioners founded by him

1822-1825

Medal, bronze, commemorating the salvation from plague and pestilence in Barcelona

1823

Medal, bronze, of Dr. Heinrich Meyer

1822

Silver medal designed by Conradsen to celebrate restoration of health of King Frederick VI of Denmark

1822

Bronze medal

1822

Bronze medal commemorating the building of the hospital at Krankenhof between 1813 and 1823

1823

Circular bronze medal

1825

Silver medal of the Linnaean Society of Lyons

1822

Portrait. A. Cooper. Engraving

1825