Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

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

1906

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

Intermediate Frame

1907

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

ex Queen Victoria's royal saloon, 1907

1907

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

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Mould from Owens automatic bottle making machine

1907

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Golden yellow viscose skein

1907

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

Junior typewriter, c. 1907

1907

One vacuum tube containing mill wheel for showing the mechanical effects of "canal" rays

1907

Columbia "Home Premier" graphophone

1906

Simplex typewriter

1907

Phillips electrostatic charging rod

1907

Double-barrelled slider condenser, 1906

1906

Large Eruptive Prominence On The Sun

1916-05

Pearson A type fire detector, 1907

1907

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