Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

'Merman'

1801-1900

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859