Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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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 automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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)

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

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

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

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)

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Ring spinning frame

1901