Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

'Merman'

1801-1900

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840