Image
Category
Collection
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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

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

circa 1885

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Boy's and Rucker's three figure signal cyclometer

1884-1886

Model, rigged, of the sailing ship 'Sudbourn'

1884

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

1885

Sperm oil hub lamp for bicycles,

1885

Cyclometer, Kittoe's patent, 1883

1883

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Print coloured. `Bird's-Eye View of the Great Suspension Bridge

1883

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Demonstration ophthalmoscope presented by Dr. Ware

1886-1866

Silver coloured metal

1884

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Turnswitch with fuse (wire), c.1886 [lacks cover]

1886

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Crompton solenoid operated lightning arrestor

1885

Uterine probe

1901-950