Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rocket locomotive

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Hand loom

1825-1835

Euston Station gates

1838

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Slotting machine

1835

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737