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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Rocket locomotive

1829

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

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

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

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Engraved lancet case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

First Steam Fire Engine Constructed in England AD 1830

1830

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

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

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

Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine

1832

Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character

1830

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829