Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

1705-1737

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885