Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

George III's pendulum

1762

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

X-ray plates

1914-1918

Glassware from Carrel's apparatus for sterilizing wounds

1914-1918

Eudiometer, Europe, 1770-1900

1770-1900

'Railway Time' clock

1840-1880

Small muslin bag containing amuletic bread

1901-1913

Amuletic ring made from a penny

1901-1913

Amulet, whelk shell with reversed spiral

1850-1920

Ceramic drinks bottle

1870-1910

Amulet of Saint Roch to protect against cholera

1800-1900

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Telegraph block instrument, South Eastern Railway

circa 1905

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Train Describer, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Large cast iron cam from Pollard Street archaeological excavations of Peel, Williams & Peel Co. Soho foundry

1839-1887

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Statue depicting 'Shou-hsing' (Shouxing)

1801-1900

GNR Railway Poster, The Skegness Cure

1911

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

horological file

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

Dye Sample; Indigo

1840s-1900

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Cut glass perfume bottle with ball-top stopper

1860-1900

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902

The Demon Detective camera

1889