Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model steam

1899

model crane - little elephant

1896

X-ray tube

1895-1899

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Model twin-screw steamship 'Kirkham', Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1894

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

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

1894