Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

London & North Western Railway 1st class corridor brake no. 5154

1906

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1906

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Poster for Corporation Theatre, Chesterfield

1906

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Microfarad condenser

1906

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Tooth sponge, bone handle, 1865-1900

1965-1900

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Gramophone & Typewriter Co. gramophone

1906

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Columbia "Home Premier" graphophone

1906

Double-barrelled slider condenser, 1906

1906

Large Eruptive Prominence On The Sun

1916-05

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Hefner lamp no. 385

1906

Dyebook inscribed: Badische anilin - & soda-fabrik ludwigahafen/Rheine

1906

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Photograph of a drawing of Sir William Crookes

1906

A photographic print of Housing, Post War, Houses - Factory Made Buildings

1963-01

A photographic print of Industry, Agriculture, Workers - Volunteers

1947-04

A photographic print of Industry, Metal - Iron & Steel, Steel Casting & Moulding

1940-01

A photographic print of Industry, Household Goods, Furniture, Post War

1946-01

A photographic print of Industry, Household Goods, Furniture, Post War

1947-05

A photographic print of Industry, Miscellaneous, Unemployed - Post War, 1945

1960-01

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; Farming, Joint Production Committee Meeting

1951-03

A photographic print of Food & Drink, Whisky

1945-06

A photographic print of Industry, Metal - Iron & Steel, Steel Converters, Furnaces, Tapping

1940-01

A photographic print of Industry, Timber, Miscellaneous - including Logs, Firewood

1940-02