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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Saw bench

1879

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Oval badge

1891

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891