Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Rocket locomotive

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Yorkshire Main Sidings First Aid Box

1900-1920

Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

1914-1924

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

1914-1924

Box, pine, for rail transport of fishing rods

1935

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

1936

Architect's drawing instruments

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Statue of the goddess Hygeia, Roman, 100 BCE - 100 CE

100 BCE-100 CE

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Goblin Timespot radio receiver with electric clock, 1947

1947

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

1960-1970

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

1945-1955

eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona

1800-1818

Portable thermometer screen

1945-1954

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

1940-1945

One handheld "mask" type stereoscopic viewer. Made of wood and lined in red velvet

1930-1970

Half-block model

1810-1830

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852

James Goddard type Cloud Mirror, 1862

1862

Adjustable crosshead, French, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Carrying case

1920

Whole block ship's stern model

1857-1858

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Model of the four-bladed screw propeller from HMS 'Lord Warden' (1865)

1865-1870

Domestic hand brush of hazel twigs with pine handle and steel wire binding

1801-1900

Bernal's (Reproduction) X-Ray Diffraction Camera, 1948-1952

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

Book: Liber de Arte Distillandi de Compositis.

1512

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960

Pine wood box

1900-1930

Diagrammatic model in wood of Holt's patent 1876 Auxiliary Steam Reversing Gear

Analytical Weights Set

1870-1920

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Mining compass in engraved ivory case, Italian, 17th century

1601-1700

M.O. Bibby recorder Mark II

Radio transmitting set for radiosonde

1973

Pilot balloon slide rule Mk IVA

1965

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Wind tunnel model of Javelin aircraft

1950-1960

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

1800-1899

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

1800-1899

Walferdin minimum thermometer

1800-1899

Bunsen Burner for Iridis platinum apparatus

Wall mounted spice cabinet, Britain, 1875-85

1875-1885