Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

1883-01

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

2 lancets

1827

4 lancets

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Snuff box

1828

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented 1850

1827

Uterine probe

1901-950

Papier mache lid from a snuff box

1827-1828

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Brass components

1827

Component of Colby's compensation bar

1827

Lithographic stone showing W.H.Wollaston, produced via camera lucida

1827

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Carrier's Way-Bill

1828

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Patent drawing of Gurney's steam coach

1827

Foot rule (folding to 3") with sliding brass calliper

circa 1827

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Brass adjustment component

1827

Brass component for Colby's compensation bars

1827

Brass component

1827

support for Colby's Compensation Bar

1827

Brass adjustment component

1827

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Worn pewter(?) medal commemorating some person's d

1828