Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Commemorative Jug, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

circa 1830

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

Silver lancet case, empty

1831

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Two lancets

1830

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

"Bate's Patent Saccharometer" (c. 1830) signed BATE POULTRY LONDON

1830

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Lever escapement with crank roller

1830

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

James Nasmyth

circa 1830s

Ellis aquatic microscope

1830

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

"Alexanders Graphic Mirror"

1830

Contact goniometer, c.1830.

1830

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Microscope by Oberhauser

1830

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Water-colour. South view of the Rectory-House

1831

Circular bronze medal with silk ribbon

1831

Bronze medal commemorating the repulse of Royal troops from Brussels during the 1830 Revolution

1830