Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Carding Engine

1896

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1990-95

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Whole model of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer 'Sokol'

1895-1900

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Bell Telephone

1878

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

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

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

Three-wheeled motor car

1888

Telephone receiver 1881

1881

Hypodermic syringe, Europe, 1871-1900

1871-1900

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

1882

John Baskerville

1851-1861

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Bradford Cathedral

circa 1855

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

1894

Medal, University of Aberdeen

1893

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Power Loom Factory of Thomas Robinson Esqr, Stockport

1849-1850

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Duke's vaginal insufflator

1871-1900

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

A 'bonnetted' Clanny lamp, no. 19, c. 1882.

1879-1886

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870