Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Model steam locomotive

1882

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855