Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

1801-1900

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

'Merman'

1801-1900

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Male anatomical model

1833-1866

Pair of child's orthopaedic boots

1879-1923

Wooden prosthetic hand with rigid fingers

circa 1920

Artificial left arm, United Kingdom, 1914-1916

1914-1916

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Mounted set of Hagedorn's suture needles

1880-1920

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Cauet artificial hand

1914-1918

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

1846

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Copy of Morton's inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1870-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912