Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

1877

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1890

Catgut suture

1875

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1890

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Obstetrical forceps

1870s