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

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Spirit level, North British Railway, Caledonian Railway, and London & South Western Railway

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Model diesel-electric locomotive

Sans Pareil model

1955-1965

Model locomotive, Great Western Railway

1916-1996

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Single line staff, North Eastern Railway, Between Wharram and Fimber

1862-1912

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Wooden and brass angle gauge

Right angle from London Brighton & South Coast Railway

Scale Model Mail Coach with Horses and Figures

Train staff and ticket box, Gipsy Lane

Model steam road vehicle, full sized replica of experimental model of approx 1/8 scale

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Model locomotive - Novelty

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

1901

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Arc for Leksell Stereotactic System, Sweden, 1992-1999

1992-1999

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761