Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

circa 1885

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Automatic switch

1885

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Crompton solenoid operated lightning arrestor

1885

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

1886

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Kew standard mercury in glass thermometer

1885

Iron Weight

1910-130

Bertin commutator

1886

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Gold leaf electrometer with sliding condenser

1886

Voltmeter

1885

'Isthmus' specimen bar, used with the Hopkinson yoke

1885

Circular tin plated medal (?), to commemorate 25 y

1886

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Plate of mild steel bent three times on itself

1885

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

1886

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

1885

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Wigglesworth Observatory, Scarborough

1885

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Bobbin of artificial silk produced by Legh Powell, 1885-1886

1885-1886

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Ore-furnace slag with crystals and angular pieces of quartz included

1885