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

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

2014

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Box of blood grouping sera

Replica Arkwright water frame

1983

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Raleigh Moulton bicycle

1970

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

1752

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Cervical cap, ‘Improved Gem’ type

1930-1960

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Elizabethan Galleon, 'Elizabeth Jonas'

1931

Model of the 'Sovereign of the Seas'

1938

Whole model of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer 'Sokol'

1895-1900

Whole model of Portuguese, 'Saveiro', a sardine boat from Aveiro

1860-1908

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Cotton card sliver

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

1872

Conoid in contact with a hyperbolic paraboloid, surface string model

1872

Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular

Model of the galley 'La Reale'

1920-1974

Model of Loch Fyne skiff 'Bonnie Jean'

1960-1965

Cotton comber web (Nasmith Comber)

Volume of dye shade cards

1865-1925

Bottle of 'DNA' eau de parfum, United States, 1993

1993

British Airways t-shirt

Duckham's Oils overalls used by David Cook

1978

Hyperboloid and Asymptotic Cone, surface string model

1872

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Model of a Greek "Foosta"

1950-1974

Pair of RAF aircrew flying boots, 1944

MSA glove

'Botox' mask by Su Richardson

2020

'Red Cross' mask by Su Richardson

2020

'Safe' mask by Su Richardson

2020