Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Glass necklace worn to prevent bronchitis, Greenwich, London, 1914

1914

Glass necklace worn to prevent bronchitis, Chelsea, London, England, 1914

1914

Bronchitis amulet

1914

Bronchitis amulet

1914

Bronchitis amulet

1914

"Ingersoll" wrist watch with leather strap

1915

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

'Leiber's Five Letter American Telegraph Code', book issued 1915

1915

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Papier mache model of human eye

1913

London & North Western Railway motor coach

1915

Carriage Ashtray from Quintinshill Disaster

1915

1914-1915 star medal - G F W Keen

1915

Steiff donkey on wheels

circa 1913

model locomotive, London & North Western Railway Claughton class

1913

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Caledonian express no 938

1915

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

1705-1737

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

Artifcial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Necklet to cure sore throats

1914

London bronchitis necklet

1914

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Fairy Offering Flowers To Iris

1920-08

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

BBC 'Bijou' Crystal Set Receiver Type 6

1923-07

Work

1914

Hirtz's compass for locating projectiles in the body

1915

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Daily Herald Photograph: Cotton workers leaving a Salford Mill

1936-12