Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

London: A Pilgrimage

1872

The Circle of Knowledge

1845-1850

View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway... May 3rd, 1830

1830

Captain Roux's 'Paracyclone'

1875

Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister

1830-1850

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

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

Sample of Globigerina ooze collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid

1829

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Collection of engineering drawings from the Great Western Railway (GWR) Engineer's Office of railway buildings and railway machinery

1837-1867

Hughes 'Typograph', Typewriter for blind people

1850

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Hansen's Writing Ball, also known as Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

1875-1880

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Snow-type chloroform inhaler

1848-1870

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Chinese abacus

before 1863

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

Pressed glass vase by John Derbyshire

circa 1876

The Pleasures of the Railroad

1831

Shergold Safety Bicycle by Thomas Shergold

1878

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

1860

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Early microtome, England, 1825-1835

1825-1835

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

circa 1870

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye

1862-1863

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

1870s

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son

1842-1858

Model of the Moon, 19 feet in diameter (half hemisphere), made by Thomas Dickert in Bonn and based on the lunar maps by Dr Julius Schmidt. Constructed at the University of Bonn in the mid 1850s, the model was later sold and sent to America before being acquired by the Field Museum in Chicago where it was displayed until the 1980s.

Model of the Moon

1850-1854

Bound volume of 12 patents

1827-1856

School exercise book, English, 1862.

1862

Haemacytometer, Paris, France, 1874

1874

Allison's differential binaural stethoscope by Weiss and Son

1859-1865

Christian Augustus Siebe

1859

Collection of 14 photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, c1865-1875

1865-1875

Fifteen Photographs of Nasmyth's Lunar Crater Models

1850-1871

Harmonic wave apparatus, mid 19th century

1831-1870

Graphic Illustrations of Animals

1840-1850

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Bunbury's Whims

1828