Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

1909

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

1902; 1913-1920

Holmes-type stereoscope

circa 1905

Edison 'Gem' phonograph, 1903.

1903

Model of Behr high speed monorail

1904

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

model triple-screw steamship st. denis

1908

East Coast Joint Stock passenger brake van

1908

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

1934

Prosthetic arm, London, 1903-1913

circa 1908

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

1705-1737

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

1907

Spengler's Pencil Sharpener, 1907

1907

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Pocket watch

1904

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Intermediate Frame

1907

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

1906

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

Braun cathode ray tube

1904

Model Great Western Railway locomotive, "Gooch"

1905

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Table instrument with dial, 1903

1903

Artificial leg made for a child, England, 1903

1903

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)