Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

circa 1880

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive

1882

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and her cousin

circa 1881

Carte de visite of William Friese-Greeene and his daugher Ethel

circa 1880

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and cousins

circa 1880

Hand powered cottage saw gin

1880

Stereoscopic Viewer

1880

Follows & Bate knife cleaner

circa 1880

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Grinding Machine made by Slack's Emery Wheel & Machine Co. Ltd

circa 1880

Gower-Bell wall telephone with transmitter made by David Moseley & Sons

circa 1880

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

1880