Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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)

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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)

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Plans (9) of no. 249 S.S. "Lee Sang"

1885

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

Set of three brass Imperial capacity measures

1885

Set of eight brass Imperial capacity measures

1883

Two boxed sets of Genaille's rods

1885

Sky sketches from September 1883 to September 1886

1883-1886