Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

School exercise book, English, 1862.

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Medal awarded at the London Exhibtion of 1862

1862

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Binocular Compound Microscope

1861

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

1883-01

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Cover page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

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

1730; 1967

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

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

Woman Against a Sunlit Wall

circa 1862