Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Compass on gimbals

1872

Rotating spark

1872

Discharging rod, jointed

1872

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1883-01

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Siemens magneto A.B.C. instrument with glass sides

1872

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

1990-95

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Astatic galvanometer by Elliott Brothers, 1872.

1872

Coal from Sumatra

before 1872

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Model of a British Industrial Landscape, c. 1865

1860-1865; 1979

Aveling blood transfusion set in case with instructions

1872

Furnace accretion "Ofenbruch" after roasting

before 1872

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Pocket sheet metal gauge

1878-1867 (design)

Coal from the Island of Formosa

before 1872

Chilian copper ore containing oxychloride of copper

1872