Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Oil lamp for projecting work

1888

Brown iron ore from Spain

before 1889

'Mitis' wrought-iron castings

1889

'Mitis' wrought-iron castings

1889

Silvered alloy medal advertising a puppet exhibition in April 1889

1889

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Chromium steel valve from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Bar-lock typewriter 1889

1889

Yost No 1 typewriter, c 1889.

circa 1889

Remington No. 5 typewriter, c. 1888

circa 1888

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Receipt with letter heading. Peter Rogers & Co

1889

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Shrouded blade

1889

Aluminium made from cryolite. Exhibited by Professor Michael Faraday

before 1889

Book of Cloud Prints

1888