Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

steam engine

1887

Graphophone record cylinder

1887

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Receipt with letter heading. Arnold & Sons

1887

James N. Routledge

1887

Resistance by Herbert Taylor 1887

1887

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas-Gilchrist process

1887

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas-Gilchrist process

1887

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas Gilchrist process

1887

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas Gilchrist process

1887

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas-Gilchrist process

1887

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Iron Weight

1910-130

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850

Rectangular alloy medal

1887

Copper medal to commemorate the 82nd birthday of Dr. Burggraeve

1887

Copper medal to commemorate C.H.D.B. Ballot

1887

Rectangular bronze plaque commemorating Dr. Leon Gosselin

1887

Bronze medal

1887