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

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

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

1879

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892