Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Mrs. Sage

1785

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846

1837-1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Orrery clock with a glass celestial globe

1795-1805

Quarter-repeating automaton watch

1800-1830

Clear glass shop round for Quinine

1801-1850

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Obstetric forceps

1780-1820

Amulet against the evil eye in the form of a fish

1801-1830

Dispensing pot for powdered quinine

1801-1830

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Pair of extending spectacles

1808-1840

Pastille burner in the shape of a house

1821-1850

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Engraved lancet case

1826

Parrot-beak dental forceps

1780-1810

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of a Thames Wherry

1781

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Flyer Spinning Wheel

1780-1850

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Regulator clock made by Vulliamy for King George III

1780

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Treadle operated ornamental lathe

1817-1823