Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

circa 1880

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

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

1705-1737

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Saw bench

1879

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Magic lantern slide: Vesuvius Coming Down

circa 1880

Early clinical thermometer by L. Casella

1880

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

1880

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

1879

Compound Microscope

1879

Four-coil Thomson astatic galvanometer

1880

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Full-page illustration of diving operations after the Tay Bridge disaster

1880

Blistered boiler plate from the ventilation department, Houses of Parliament, 1881

before 1881

Design for a DE Convertible Wagonette

1880

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Railway Director's Official Diary, Great Western Railway, 1880

1880

Chislett's conical electro-magnetic machine, 1873

1880

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Litho, on blue: Conference aerostatique et scientifique M. Pommeirol. Denis Papin balloon. Advert

1880

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825