Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Penguin book

1948

Penguin book

1946

Bild Lilli doll. Made of all-rigid plastic with jointd limbs

1955

Miniature Bild Lilli doll (unclothed)

1955

'Picture Post' magazine. March 6, 1943

1943

Booklet. 'Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme'

1948

'Six-Five Special !"

1957

"Stebull" box shaped electric hair dryer

1920-1940

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Roving frame

1927

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

"Flammenwolf U" electric firelighter (German c.1935)

1935

Kenwood A101 electric toaster

1957

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Stud field regulator, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, deep sea type, 1956

1956

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

1953-1958

Filter used to produce radioactive water

1901-1930

Bottle of medicinal water from La Rampe

1920-1928

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

1925

Straight horn loudspeaker, 1921-1926

1921-1926

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Part of Rugby transatlantic telephone transmitter, 1927-1956

1927-1956

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890