Image
Category
Collection
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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)

'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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1883

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

1883

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

1886-1887

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1886-1887

Gray-Milne seismograph made by James White

1885

The Tissandier 'La France' airship, 1883.

1883

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Sunset and afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.

1883