Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1705-1737

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

1894

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

1934

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

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1990-95

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

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

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

1894

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

2050-1750 BCE

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Perth Station, Coming South

1895

Troncet's 'Totalisateur', with pencil stylus and case

circa 1895

London & North Western Railway insurance society

1894

Industrial Ironworks

1895

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE