Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Wooden commemorative plaque, Thirsk 1892, North Eastern Railway

1892

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Oval badge

1891

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

1990-95

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No 3, 1894.

1894

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Early Linotype composing machine, 1892

1892

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Galloway Boiler

1894

Magic lantern slide seascape with rocks

circa 1893