Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Steel engraving: Suspension Bridge

1827

Steel engraving: Southwark Bridge Road

1827

Etching, the first arch in the progress of building the New London Bridge

1827

Hammersmith suspension Bridge

1828

The March of Intellect

1828

Ballooning at Dulwich

1829

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Birkenhead Ferry, Opposite Liverpool

1829

Lithograph of Suspension Bridge design

1829

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

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

1827

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931