Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Walter, William Grey

1910 - 1977

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

1910

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Ear trumpet

1850-1900

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Mundy-Castle, Alastair

1923 - 2015

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Shipton, Harold William

1920 - 2007

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Ring spinning frame

1901

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

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