Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1705-1737

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

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

1870-1877

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Chess players

circa 1844

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Past and Present

1845

The Shakespere Cliffe, and Tunnel

1844

Coloured lithograph. "East View of Ely from the Railway"

1845

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

2000 BCE

The man wot knows how to get up the steam

1845

James Watt

1845

Circular bronze medal

1844

Abingdon Road Station, Oxfordshire

1844

Medal, bronze, commemorating the reunion of Italian scientists under auspices of Ferdinando I

1844

Bronze medal commemorating publication of "Le Fruit Errant" by Eugene Sue

1845

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

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

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825