Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model steam locomotive

1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

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

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

1705-1737

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Oval badge

1891

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889