One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889
1889
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889
1889
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Photograph of Karl Benz
circa 1885
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
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
Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.
1886-1887
Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884
1884
Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton
1890
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"
1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)
Three-wheeled motor car
1888
Lancashire Boiler
1889
The Tissandier 'La France' airship, 1883.
1883
Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre
1879 (1956)
Akroyd crude oil engine, 1890.
1890
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box
1883
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
'Manchester' dynamo, around 1886.
circa 1886
Waller's electrocardiograph, London, England, 1887-1888
1887-1888
Original Tesla induction motor, 1887-1888
1887-1888
One of eleven photographs
1883
One of eleven photographs
1883
Terrestial globe showing magnetic meridians c.1880
1886
Williams typewriter
1890
Whole model of the screw tug 'Victor'
1884-1885; 1919
Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933
1900-1933
Hammond 'Ideal' typewriter, 1884
1884
Model of H.M. Brigantine 'Dolphin'
1950-1977 (model); 1836 (original)
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Model, of the ketch rigged 'Celt', a Yarmouth Smack fishing drifter
1883
Votive plaque with right ear in relief
400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief
100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Resistance by Herbert Taylor 1887
1887
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief
100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Freezing microtome, London, England, 1883-1885
1883-1885
Whole model of twin screw tug and dispatch boat
1889-1890
Kew standard mercury in glass thermometer
1885
'Isthmus' specimen bar, used with the Hopkinson yoke
1885
Mercury thermometer for readings from -6 deg C to 104 deg C
1890