Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Model of human eye

1870

Rocket locomotive

1829

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Divers Projets

1798

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

A steam hammer at work

1871

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Skull saw, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1785

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780