Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
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)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1886-1887

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

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Apparatus for earth induction

1887

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Boxwood ceiling rose, 1888

1888

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

1886

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

First alternating current magnifying strip spring ammeter

1888

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Bertin commutator

1886

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Gold leaf electrometer with sliding condenser

1886

Voltmeter graduated to 100 volts

1887

Stirn waistcoat camera. c.1888. No.6227

1888

Reckenzaun's meter, 1888

1888

Barlow & Jones Limited Woven Banner

1887

Set of 11 coins for Queen Victoria's Jubilee

1887

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

1886

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Telephones [James Brand]

1888

Sachse's model of space formulae for Benzene

1888

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

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Lithograph: La Tour Merveilleuse

1888

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE