Image
Category
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Frame to demonstrate parallelogram of forces

1752

Cylindrical electrical machine

Early type of electrical machine

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Machine for solving cubic equations

1956

Original machine for etching glass with geometrical designs

1865-1875

Incomplete no. 00 machine. (This should not be destroyed until direct comparison has been made with /1, now on display - MTW 4/3/94)

Incomplete no. 00 machine

Bertsch electrical machine

Bertsch electrical machine

1886

Mortising machine

Mortising machine

Bacteriological culture spreading machine (prototype) developed 1967-69.

Bacteriological culture spreading machine (prototype) developed 1967-69

Two Siemens machines used at Cambridge by John Hopkinson.

Two Siemens Machines

Lynch 10 semi-automatic bottle-making machine, c. 1930 and five bottles made on the machine

Lynch 10 semi-automatic bottle-making machine

1930

Automatic washing machine, by Bendix, 1943

Automatic washing machine, by Bendix, 1943

1943

Original machine for etching glass with geometrical designs, invented by John Northwood, Wordsley, Staffordshire, England, 1865, and made by Stevens and Williams Limited, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1865-1875

Original machine for etching glass with geometrical designs

1865-1875

Machine itself with workpiece on chuck & cutter on spindle

Machine itself with workpiece on chuck & cutter on spindle

Machine for winding spiral springs, made by Joseph Bramah, c. 1780

Machine for winding spiral springs

Model of a `Heath Robinson' machine for splitting peas, made by the Science Museum workshops, 1972

Model of a Heath Robinson machine for splitting peas

1972

Model of a Heath Robinson machine for testing dentures, made by the Science Museum workshops, 1972

Model of a Heath Robinson machine for testing dentures

1972