Image
Category
Collection
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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

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

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

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

1871

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Model of human eye

1870

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

1870

Magic lantern slide: Housemaid and chimney sweep

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 12

1870

Prison record sheet

1873

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 6

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

1870

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

1873

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

Hyperboloid and Asymptotic Cone, surface string model

1872

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

1870

London: A Pilgrimage

1872

Inmates sharpening tools

1871

Inmate at a loom

1871

Inmates at work

1870-1871

'Hypatia'

circa 1870