Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Induction coil and smee cell

1850-1860

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Varley's lightning protector, 1856

1856

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Fern Leaf

1852

Two girls by a window

circa 1860

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

1913; circa 900 CE

Silver shilling coin

1856

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

clinometer, British, 1850-1859

1850-1859

Prismatic compass, 1851-1856

1851-1856

Maximum thermometer

1861

Box of microweights for rain gauge testing. 8 missing from set of 15

after 1851

Ronalds' Photobarometrograph, 1847

1847

Payne type pedometer, British, 1853

1853

Marine barometer by Ernst

1855

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852

Fortin mountain barometer in brass case

1850

Barograph by Moritz Pillischer, 1850

1850

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Fitzroy pattern marine gun barometer by Negretti & Zambra

1860

Aneroid Barometer, 1848

1848

Standard maximum thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1852

Station barometer with weather lore

1850-1860

Hicks patent mercurial minimum thermometer with brass sliding scale

1861

Herschel type actinometer, 1849-1851

1849-1851

Standard mercury thermometer, 1854

1854

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Ordinary spirit-in-glass thermometer with ivory scale and mahogany frame

1854

Solar radiation thermometer, 1849.

1849

Dr. Potter's aerometric balance

1850

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Oval pattern-frame sextant.

1851-1856

Everest theodolite

circa 1855

Rain gauge measuring glass cylinder

1851

Balfour-Stewart experimental mercury thermometer

1856

Rain gauge square section

1851

Inertia ring used by Capt. Collinson, 1850-53

1850-1853

Welsh's vertical force magnetograph by Adie, 1857

1857

Two inertia rings, circa 1853

1853

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

Anker Viaduct

1847

Her Majesty's luncheon at the Royal Station Hotel York

1855

Harwich

1850

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Public Dinner to Robert Stephenson

1850/08/10

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11