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

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Gunter quadrant

1640

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Multo Brunsviga type barrel calculating machine

1950-1960

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Amulet in the shape of a scorpion

1800-1920

Apothecary's spoon

Brooch in the form of a crab

1890-1930

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

model horsebox

1975-1985

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Hull & Selby Rly Co., three aspect guard's handlamp

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Brass padlock

1831-1920

Cornish piskie amuletic pendant

1871-1930

Train Describer, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Eclipse

1841

Atlantic Telegraph Cable Souvenir, 1873

1873-1920

Gutta percha snuff box, 1820-1860

1820-1860

Statue of White Tara

1801-1900

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574