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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Model steam

1899

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Poster for Magni & C. Vicenza, printed by G Ricordi & C Milano c1900

circa 1900

Wooden foreplane, 1900.

1900

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Morse tape on which signals were recorded by means of a coherer, 1900

1900

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Brass worksplate no 1517, Manning Wardle & Co

1900

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Cesare Urtis & Co - Forniture Electriche

1900

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

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

1934

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897