Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Mrs. Sage

1785

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Richard Trevithick

1816

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Waywiser by W. Harris and Co.

1816-1835

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

1795

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

1771-1800

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Rigged model of a late 18th century naval Revenue Cutter

1775-1815

Mariner's compass

circa 1775

Cloud study by Luke Howard

1803-1811

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Locomotion

1834-1836

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Royal Mail Coach

1815-1830

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

Volta-type eudiometer

1800-1820

Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper

1790

Napoleon's Toothbrush, Europe, 1790-1821

1790-1821

Newcomen Engine built by Francis Thompson of Ashover near Chesterfield 1791. Re-erected in house built with materials taken from the engine house at Pentrich, Derbyshire, where it was last worked

Newcomen Atmospheric Engine

1791

Medicine glass, barrel shape, cut design

1801-1830

Wooden model of a mercury compensated pendulum

1829

Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON

1795

Model of a Section of the Pont-y-Cysyllte Aqueduct, 1805

1805

Model of P.S. 'Lord W. Bentinck'

1832

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Wooden model of a screw

1828

Parts of apparatus for demonstrating thermoelectricity

1828

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Boxfoot Culpeper microscope

1780-1820

Model of H.M. Brigantine 'Dolphin'

1950-1977 (model); 1836 (original)

Pottery drug jar

1805-1833

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Buffon

1770-1810

Constructional model, of a ship’s stern, showing the screw steamer Novelty’s propeller arrangements

1838-1840

Pine wood circular stand, with plaster gilt decoration

1790-1800