Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1934

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Case and parts for 12 x 15 inch Chapman 'British' plate camera

circa 1888

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Reckenzaun's meter, 1888

1888

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Oulton-Edmundson electric meter, 1889 (No.507)

1889

Lampholder by Dorman and Smith, Manchester, 1888

1888

Model of A.C. meter in which a rotating field is produced by an electromagnet with "shaded" poles

1889

Ediswan lampholder, with ceramic insulation, 1888

1888

Uterine probe

1901-950

Leather pouch which originally held a medal issued by Edinburgh University

1889

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Evershed's Ohmmeter no.2

1889

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830