Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

1897-1898

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

BP tank wagon

1901

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

The "Perfect Vise"

1890

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Ring spinning frame

1901

Therapeutic Exercise Chair, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1901-1905

1901-1905

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Life size female anatomical figure

1895-1905

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

1902; 1913-1920

Holmes-type stereoscope

circa 1905

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899