Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of human eye

1870

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

A steam hammer at work

1871

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man in Top Hat

circa 1870

Magic lanern slide: Skipping Clowns

circa 1870

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale

1870

Trade label for Joseph Casartelli

1870

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

circa 1870

The Black Country

1869

John Herschel

1870

Lithograph. The New Wilford Bridge. Crosses the Trent at the site of the old Wilford Ferry

1870

Interrupter for induction coil (early form)

1870

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Illuminated address, to Sir Daniel Gooch Bart, MP

1871

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

In Memoriam, Caroli A Linne

1871

The Cooper's family

1869

Lactometer or Milk Tester (dated 1869) by MOTTASHEAD & CO

1869

Compound microscope for opaque objects

1870

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cabinet portrait photograph of John Ramsbottom

1871

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

"Refinery slag" from Sutton Copper Works

1871

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825