Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Scold's Bridle Mask which partially covers face

1550-1800

Rocket locomotive

1829

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

London Midland & Scottish Railway decorative crest

1928

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1752

Logic door from a Ferranti Mark I computer, 1951

1951

George III's pendulum

1762

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, 1962-1967

1962-1967

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600

Small drum-shaped clock from the second quarter of the 16th Century

1525-1550

Roving frame

1927

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Lucas grapnel, 1888-1960

1888-1960

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, 1890-1910

1890-1910

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Pair of obstetrical forceps

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Drum shaped clock from the third quarter of the 16th Century

1550-1575

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Gate plaque, East Lancashire Railway

Single ended wrench

1880-1950

'Leesona' Pirn Winder

1893-1959

Electrogalvanic amulet

1870-1935

Model of steam tank locomotive Owain Glyndwr

1969