Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

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

'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

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Troncet's 'Totalisateur', with pencil stylus and case

circa 1895

Model of Liverpool Road Sewer

1895

Model of Sewer at Water Street

1895

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

Wooden casing and capping for electrical cables

1895

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Wooden casing and capping for electrical cables

1895

Uterine probe

1901-950

Viscose sponge. Forerunner of spontex. 1895(?)

1895

Bobbin(?) in light brown solid viscose.

1895

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Single loop carbon filament lamp with bayonet cap

circa 1895

Ferranti electric meter part

1895

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

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Graphic typewriter by C.F. Kindermann Company

1895

Photograph of exploding meteor, in frame.

1895

Hammond typewriter, with braille marked keys, 1895

1895

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Photograph of the title page of Roentgen's first publication on X-rays

1895

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Iron Weight

1910-130

Cyclometer, 1895, by New York Standard Watch Company

1895

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

2000 BCE