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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

Plaster mould

1790-1819

George III's pendulum

1762

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Charcoal-burning portable ornamental box foot warmer

1750-1850

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Painted mask from Kolam masked play

1771-1860

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Socrates

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819