Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

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

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

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

1829

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

1829

Bunbury's Whims

1828

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

The Rastrick Notebook

1829

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Lithograph of Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage

circa 1829

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

Print showing Gurney's steam carriage on Highgate Hill

1828

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

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving, hand coloured. View in the Regent's Park; East Gate

1828

The Progress of Steam

1828

Carrier's Way-Bill

1828

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

2000 BCE

Coloured aquatint: "View of the Suspension Bridge erected over the Menai Strait in North Wales - Looking towards Beaumaris"

1828

The Horses, going to the Dogs

1829

White metal

1829

Bronze medal to commemorate Edward Ruppell

1828

Medal commemorating Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring

1828

Bronze medal commemorating the Society of Medicine of Angers

1829

Silver medal to commemorate the 7th Congress for the Examination of Nature

1828