Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model steam locomotive

1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 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

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Oval badge

1891

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

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

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

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

1990-95

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Great Northern Railway working hours for artizans and their labourers on notice card

1890