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

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephone, 1959

1959

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephone, 1959

1959

Model of Chambers' Signal Interlocking Frame

c.1912

Wooden model railway points

Knochenhauer spirals, 1963

1963

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Model of Brunel's Disc and Crossbar Signal

c.1912

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

Examples of two-colour offset lithography, 1965-1980

1965-1980

Faraday's specific inductive capacity apparatus, 1837, replica

1837

Roman abacus

1974

Glass positive:- Halley's Comet

1910

Glass copy negative of Leeds Bridge by Louis Le Prince

1933 (1888)

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

1930s (1888)

Drawing of suspension for Foucault's pendulum (1) Foucault's method (2) Science Museum

1917

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephones, 1959

1959

Copies of the Joule calorimeter

1800-1899

Animated diagram, N.P.L caesium atomic clock

1961

Faraday electrolysis tube

1833

Enlarged model to show the principle of the knitting machine, made at the Science Museum

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Sectional drawing of the cylinder of Trevithick's model locomotive

1890

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Drawing of curves to be placed under Boys' curve-drawing integrator

1917

Glass Positive of Hubble’s Classification of ‘Nebulae’

1930

Centre-handle graver (from circulation collection)

1970-1975

Dot graver (from the Circulation collection)

1970-1975

Coloured drawing depicting French hand-powered silk throwing mill

Nebula in Cygnus

1910-07

Nebula in Cygnus; NGC 6960; RA

1910-07-04

Six Cast Iron Vertical Handrail Supports

"All Stations" - A Journey Through 150 Years

1978

Poster, National Railway Museum

1975

Elizabethan Galleon, 'Elizabeth Jonas'

1931

Model of lithium atom, showing Bohr orbits

Animated model of a Bohr-Rutherford Neon Atom

1960-1969

Replica of Paul perforating machine, 1896

circa 1930

Four pairs of stereoscopic photographs of cloud chamber tracks

1960-1970

Platinotype print of plate showing ptolemaic system

1914

Drawing of Lord Rosse's machine

1915

Platinotype print

1880

Weather

2001

Reproduction of four Rayleigh Bird-calls

1931

3 plans of the Science Museum's Southern Galleries

1908-1912

Plaster cast of mediaeval corbel in the roof of St. Martin's

1200-1500 (original)

Bromide print of Burrough's adding and listing machine

1925