Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Lunar Crater model

1849-1851

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Automaton monkey

1850

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son

1842-1858

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

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

'The Thames Tunnel' peepshow, with original box

1851

Coloured daguerreotype photograph

circa 1849

Daguerreotype of John Avery Stranded In Rapids Above Niagara

1853

Niger of Sunderland William Souter Commander

1852

Cloud modifications

1849

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

1850

Compound monocular microscope, 1852

1852

Presentation Kettle to Mr Allcard by Buddicom & Co’s Workshops

1853

Antifriction Press, D. Dick

1851

Steam Engine, Hick and Son

1851

Psyche and Cupid, Fraikin

1851

View of Transept, Looking South

1851

Furs, Nicholay

1851

Vacuum Apparatus, Pontifex and Wood

1851

Design for Fountain, Andre

1851

Thomas lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1853.

patent 1853

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

The Principles & Practice & Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines

1850

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Refracting Telescope of Aperture 6.5 in ( 165mm)

1851

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Caution List of Convictions

1885-09

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Ruhmkorff coil c.1850

1850

Iron Weight

1910-130

Dumpy level

circa 1850

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

Pearl type metal, made in 1850

1850

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

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

London & North Western Railway Coupling

1849

Roman stone water main

30

Lens with Adjustable Diaphragm

1851

Horse-drawn Hermaphrodite farm cart c. 1850? by W.

circa 1850

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