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

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

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

1934

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.

1919

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The Munition Girls

1918

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Motor car light switch

1919

Throttle-controlled oil pump

1919

Motor car lighting dynamo

circa 1919

Motorcycle drive belt

1919

Motor car starter motor

circa 1919

Carburettor

1919

Motor car priming plug

circa 1919

Section of pneumatic bicycle tyre

1919

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Small stub-stemmed meerschaum tobacco pipe

1950-1900

Wooden mechanical hand with a rigid thumb

1918

Kneeling type leather prosthesis for a very short flexed left below knee stump

circa 1918

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

2 packets of tissue paper containing four celluloid eyepieces

1918

Brass plaque showing Dr. Walter Kahn

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, Siemens-Schottky valve, type GV15

circa 1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi valve, type F.E.1

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, MOV-MSI Co. Ltd. valve, type F.E.1

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram/GEC valve, type B2

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, Siemens-Halske triode valve

1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, Telefunken valve, type EVE173

1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, MOV valve, type V.24

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi WT Co valve, type V24

circa 1919