Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barber-Colman knotter.

circa 1925

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

The Munition Girls

1918

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Mill Engine

1903

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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

1897-1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, London, England, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Petrol locomotive

1925

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

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

1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

1921

BP tank wagon

1901

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924