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

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Helmet, Great Western Railway, Fireman

1912

model tank locomotive

1912

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of Chambers' Signal Interlocking Frame

c.1912

GNR Railway Poster, The Skegness Cure

1911

model twin-screw steamship rhyl

1911

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

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

1705-1737

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of Brunel's Disc and Crossbar Signal

c.1912

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of Woods' Vane Signal

c.1912

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Model of Gregory's semaphore signal

c.1912

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912

Flying Scotsman Australian tickets

1989-08

Monotype Cutting and Grinding Machine

1911

Music Hall poster for Animated Pictures at The Picturedrome, Bedford

circa 1911

Ford Model T car

1912

Glass framed photograph, time lapse sequence of the partially eclipsed Sun and corona at totality

1912

Pathe gramophone for use with hill-and-dale disc records, and 20 records

1911

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Prototype visibility meter, circa 1911

1911

Weight perception test apparatus,1912

1912

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Tattooing set consisting of fibre brush and wooden blade-handle

1970-1910

Electro-magnetic coil 2.75" long formerly the property of Michael Faraday (from Faraday's chest)

1911

Adjustable porte polisher

1912

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Magnesium Hydride in Sun Spot

1911

Tooth sponge, bone handle, 1865-1900

1965-1900

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Carbon granule aid, double microphone, 1912.

1912

Experimental free edge cone diaphragm wire operator

1912

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Wilson gold leaf electrometer

1912