Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1896

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

model crane - little elephant

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

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

1896

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Carding Engine

1896

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

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

1896

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

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

1705-1737

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

Holden's 4 cylinder direct drive motor bicycle

1897

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

Map, Railway Clearing House

1897

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

William Cudworth

1896

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE