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

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Notice, cardboard and tin

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

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

1936

Empty tin of Glucose with Vitamin D

1924-1960

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

'P & K' artificial left arm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1920-1925

1920-1925

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

1927

Tin of Similac infant milk powder, Europe, 1980

1980

Sensitive Hair Element

1941

Tea tin

Set of paint brushes & paint, British, 1875-1901

1875-1901

Material exhibiting the stages of can manufacturing, England, 1989

1989

Ink scale

1940-1960

Part of a selection of 13 application electrodes

1890-1910

Tin of SMA infant milk formula powder, Europe, 1980

1980

Glass-stoppered bottle containing tin

1801-1892 (prepared)

Salvarsan kit

1909-1912

Space food, Stewed apples made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station, by Altec.

2015

Super Astronaut Robot

1970's

Attacking Martian

1967

Talking Missile Robot

1980

Super Astronaut Robot

1970's

Attacking Martian (Big head) robot

1960's

Mighty Robot

1964-1966

TV Robot

1969

Star strider

1980's

Tin badge, with a text "Stone Age? No Thanks Atoms for Energy"

Dabba, or tiffin lunchbox tin

2017

Replica of an electroscope (c. 1900) used by Ernest Rutherford for his experiments on alpha rays

1964-1974

Exactus adder

1945-1955

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

1945-1955

Ritchie's patent liquid compass with hollow metal cross type compass rose in tin bowl

07-04-1863

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

1903

Edward Jenner's tobacco box, Europe, 1820-1821

1810-1821

25 components from the sidereal and mean time clock designed by Joseph Vines

1830-1840

Collection of metal foils and archives to do with work on gaseous diffusion of uranium isotopes

1941-1947

8" experimental compass in wood and glass display box

1873-1876

Two lighting fuse wires and eight light bulb components

1978

'Capstan' Navy Cut tobacco box, 1921-1939

1921-1939

Salmon in a tin

1995-1999

Set of thirty Napier's brass rods in tin case

1670-1699

Working model of Destroyer HMS 'Antelope'

1927-1933

Model of the HMS Glasgow (1909)

1909-1919