Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of human eye

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

A steam hammer at work

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1865

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Catgut suture

1875