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Model of the frieze above the Agriculture Gallery

1950-1951

Model of Narivalaya at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Scale model of Loewy's Coude (elbow) Telescope, 1892

1892

model of equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra)

1884-1886

models of Celestial hemispheres (Kapali)

1884-1886

Model of machine for grinding concave mirrors

Model of copying lathe, scale 1:5

1889-1892

Model of a watermill at Yarde, Somerset

Model of bound foot with shoe and stocking

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

1790

Model of James Nasmyth's direct-action steam hammer

1843-1857

Model of pointer to the North Pole (Druv Nal)

1884-1886

Model of Ayn Yantra at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Model of Yantra and astrolabe at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Wire and metal model showing plane tessellation for great dodecahedron

Demonstration model to explain the principle of the Foucault pendulum

1915
Models of (a) Celestial hemispheres (Kapali) (b) equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra), scale 1:24, in the Jaipur Observatory

Models of (a) Celestial hemispheres (Kapali) (b) equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra)

1884-1886
model of Azimuth instrument (Diagamsa Yantra), scale 1: 24, in the Jaipur Observatory

model of Azimuth instrument (Diagamsa Yantra)

1884-1886
Model of altitude circle (Unnatansha Yantra), scale 1:24, in the Jaipur Observatory

Model of altitude circle (Unnatansha Yantra)

1884-1886
model of sundial, similar to Samrat Yantra, scale 1:24, in the Jaipur Observatory

Model of Samrat Yantra at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886
Wire and metal model showing plane tessellation for dodecahedron, a regular polyhedra, c. 1975

Wire and metal model showing plane tessellation for dodecahedron

Two models of Ditisheim's monometallic compensation balances for use with Elinvar hairsprings; (a) with raidal poising screws; (b) with sunk poising screws to avoid barometric disturbances

Two models of Ditisheim's monometallic compensation balances for use with Elinvar hairsprings

1920-1925
Model, scale 1:4, of the EM7 million volt transmission electron microscope made by Associated Electrical Industries Limited (AEI), made at the Science Museum, London, England, 1986.

Quarter scale model of the AEI EM7 million volt transmission electron microscope

1986 (model)
models of altitude and azimuth instrument (Ram Yantra), scale 1:24 (two models each complementary to the other) in the Jaipur Observatory

Model of Ram Yantra at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886
Model of an Electric Trolleybus, c. 1950

Model of an Electric Trolleybus, c. 1950

1950
model of complementary hemispheres (Jai Prakash), scale 1:24, in the Jaipur Observatory

Model of Jai Prakash at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886
Replica of the point projection X-ray microscope made by William Charles Nixon and Ellis Cosslett at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England, 1952.

X-ray Projection microscope

1952 (original)
Selection of handmade models, artefacts and ephemera from the BBC Television production of Mervyn Peake's novels about the fantasy kingdom, Gormenghast, 2000.

Selection of Models, Artefacts and Ephemera 'Gormenghast'

2000
model of overshot waterwheel on wooden stand (Watt Collection no. 1813)

Overshot waterwheel, made in the 1800s

1876