Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

A plan and section of the railway from Liverpool to Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster

1829

A peepshow, entitled, 'Optique No.6: Pont Sous La Tamise'

1825-1830

Henry Bell

1826

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

1830

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Phrenological head of Brazilian tribesman, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1826

1826

Print showing Gurney's steam carriage on Highgate Hill

1828

'Rocket', 'Novelty' and 'Sans Pareil' at the Rainhill Trials

1829