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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

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

Wrought iron coffee mill with circular lidded hopper

1850-1900

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

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

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular white metal medal

1830-1900

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Socrates

1790-1819

horological gravers

1850-1900

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

1880-1890

horological file

1850-1900

Statue depicting 'Shou-hsing'

1801-1900

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Statue of St Cosmas, France, 1801-1900

1801-1900

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899