Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Electromagnet Core made by James Joule

1839

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Paddington (Old Station)

1838

Lithograph 'Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits showing the Floating of the Second Tube, 1849'

1850-07

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Engraving, Portrait of George Stephenson (signed), from painting by H P Briggs, 1838

1838-06-07

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

table of rates and charges

1857/07

business card

1839

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

stockton & hartlepool railway company debenture no. 5

1839

Bronze medal

1839

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Portable Balance

1838

Portion of original nitric acid battery

1839

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

1913; circa 900 CE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

invitation to mrs shaw to tea and supper

1838

The London and North Western Railway Four-Cylinder Compound Express Locomotive No 1909, Jubilee

1899/05

London and North Western Railway Four-Cylinder Compound Express Locomotive No 1901, Jubilee

1899/05

Doric Arch Under Construction

1838

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Entrance Portico, Euston Grove Station

1838

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

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

1880-120

2 lancets

1838

Silver lancet case, empty

1838

Two lancets

1838

4 lancets

1838