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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
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'If a married man has an affair, it may not be with a woman' posters

1994-5

Metronome

1890-1907

Prestwich 35mm cine camera, case and hand crank

1897

Scale Model of Koenig and Bauer Cylinder Printing Press, 1975-1978

1975-1978

Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels

1988 (model); 1752 (original)

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894

1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)

Model of ancient Egyptian funerary boat with two oars

1915

Collection of models of hygienic sanitary appliances

1895

Flat-topped Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Motor car engine

1903

North Eastern Railway Headquarters, York

1902

Scottish Bone Comb for Heckling Flax, Neolithic

9000-2700 BCE

Watkin type clinometer, British, 1897-1900

1897-1900

Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621, designed by Wilson Worsdell, built at Gateshead in 1893, withdrawn in 1945.

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 1621

1893

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner (Patent No. 21,304), designed by Walter Griffith, unsigned, Europe, 1905

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner

circa 1905

Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine, Corliss valve gear, by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, 1898. Part sectioned to show valves, scale 1:6

Horizontal Engine with Corliss Valve Gear, c. 1898

1898

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Thomas Crapper's valveless waste preventer, No.814 cistern, c.1900

Thomas Crapper's valveless waste preventer

1900

Reproduction of Burt "Typographer" typewriter, 1893. Patented July 23, 1829. The original Burt "Typographer" was the first typewriter machine known to have been capable of practical work.

Reproduction of Burt "Typographer" Typewriter, 1893

1893

35mm Lumiere Cinematographe, camera, printer, projector, serial number 8.. Lumiere perforation.. Fitted with Krauss Zeiss Anastigmatic f6-3, 54mm lens No.10209. Made by Jules Carpentier, 1895/6.

Lumiere Cinematographe

1895/6

Parsons' Auxetophone reproducer

1903

8x20 'Feldstecher' binocular inscribed 'Carl Zeiss

1895-1899

Early Acousticon carbon granule aid, 1902

1902

Barometer used during 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Electromagnetic machine in mahogany case

1900

Horse-drawn Cockshoot carriage, 1900

1900

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Sample of fabric and wood from the original Wright Brothers 1903 aircraft

1903; 1948

Queen's Sudan Medal 1896-1897

1896-1897

Jaynay Paper Guillotine

1902-1905

Brass Bell Weights

1895-1905

Horse-Drawn Charabanc

1890

Monotype Epidiascope

1907

Ariel Motor Tricycle

1898-1899

Saxon Barring Engine

1903

Grosvenor or 'London Circular' Gas Street Lamp Head and Stand

1900

Windsor Gas Street Lamp

1900

Great Eastern Railway, Stratford Works

1897

Photograph of the Whitby Docks

1890-1900

Drawings (9) of colonial cruisers "Tauranga" and "Ringarooma"

1890-1891

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902

1899-1902

Diagram of Meyers Variable Cut-off Valves

1905

'Marine Engine Piston Valve'

1905

Hot-wire voltmeter

1895

Direct reading two-range voltmeter

1900

Bazzi and Bianchi phonendoscope

1901-1905

Demonstration model of a differential gear

1890-1905

Portrait. Chromolithograph, "a self-made African"

1904