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 steam locomotive

1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wooden commemorative plaque, Thirsk 1892, North Eastern Railway

1892

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Model steam locomotive

1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

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

1934

Oval badge

1891

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

1890

2-cwt deadweight weighing machine

circa 1890

Anschutz Tachyscope

1891

A lantern slide of Ilfracombe

circa 1893

A lantern slide of Appledore

circa 1893

Magic lantern slide showing west front of Exeter Cathedral

circa 1893

Lantern slide of a cottage by Birt Acres

circa 1893

A lantern slide entitled 'Morthoe, North Devon'

1893

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Positive on glass

1890