Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

Experimental diesel railbus, LEV 1, 1975

1975

Working replica of Rocket

1979

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

1976

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

English Electric Company diesel electric locomotive 'Deltic' Co-Co 3300HP, 1955

1955

Liquid-filled Plastic Lens Television Magnifier, 1935-1965

1935-1965

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Datsun Cherry 100a (E10) four door saloon motor car made by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd

1974

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Globtik Tokyo

circa 1972

bicycle, 'Rudge', 21" lady's frame, 1956.

1956

PDP 10 operators console, 1966-1970

1966-1970

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

1925-1958

Russell-Smith Collection

1947-1958

16-ton mineral wagon

1955

Locomotion

1973-1983

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

1951

Class 08 Shunter

1953

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956