Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

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

circa 1885

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

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

1705-1737

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1934

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and cousins

circa 1880

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Boy's and Rucker's three figure signal cyclometer

1884-1886

Model, rigged, of the sailing ship 'Sudbourn'

1884

Colour lithograph of the November Meteors 1868

1882

Colour lithograph of the Great Comet of 1881

1882

Colour lithograph of partial lunar eclipse

1882

Colour lithograph of the zodiacal light

1882

Etching, hand-coloured. Gurney's New Steam Carriage. Annotated

1885