Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Circular bronze medal struck to commemorate the 32

1856

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Medal, Inauguration of the Asile Imperial de Vincennes pour les Ouvriers Convalescents

1857

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Portrait. R.W. Bunsen. Lithographed by Hoffmann after a photograph by Hanfstungel

1856

Henry Cort

1856

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Horizontal sundial, inscribed: 'LIFE A SHAD-W A.D. 1856'

1856

Two rivets from a boiler which exploded at Messrs. Hickman's Works, Staffordshire, in 1856

before 1856

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Blast-furnace slag produced at the Newland Furnaces

1856

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Portrait of Sir Benjamin Brodie

1856

Refined iron from the Bromford Iron Works, 1856

1856

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE