Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Addac adding machine

1926

Shelvador electric compression domestic refrigerator, c. 1934-1935.

1930-1940

Penguin book

1948

Penguin book

1946

Bild Lilli doll. Made of all-rigid plastic with jointd limbs

1955

Miniature Bild Lilli doll (unclothed)

1955

'Picture Post' magazine. March 6, 1943

1943

Booklet. 'Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme'

1948

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

"Stebull" box shaped electric hair dryer

1920-1940

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Roving frame

1927

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

"Flammenwolf U" electric firelighter (German c.1935)

1935

Demonstration radio receiver

1926

Flag from Cable Ship 'Faraday' (sunk 1941), 1923-1941

1923-1941

Moulded unprocessed bakelite panel ready for ECME, 1936-1955

1936-1955

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

High frequency sliding inductance on wood base, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Wooden pillar insulators, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Stud field regulator, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

1926

'You may telephone from here' sign, 1910-1936

1910-1936

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

Copper busbars and ebonite insulators, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

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

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930