Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sans Pareil

1829

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

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

2500 BCE

Pen and ink sketch of the Marquis de Jouffry's steamboat, 'Pyroscaphe'

1830

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Steel engraving

1830

Model of Faraday's Toothed Wheel

1830

Box for Phantasmagora Magic Lantern

1830

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Medal commemorating the 'Bridge at Newton'

1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

The Rastrick Notebook

1829

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

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

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Lithograph by Harvey Dutton of H.M.S. "St. George"

1830

First Steam Fire Engine Constructed in England AD 1830

1830

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

1828

Engraving of William Symington (1763-1831)

circa 1830

Silver medal

1828

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

"Round. Triangle. Square."

1828

Wooden model of a screw

1828

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Henry Kingsford of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway dated 12 June 1830

1830-06-12

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

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE