Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Working Model locomotive

1922

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Loud speaker valve type L.S.5. W/T, 1923

1923

Model of a pendulum clock based on Galileo's design

1921

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

1923

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Dye Sample

1916

McKay artificial left arm

1920

Wooden prosthetic hand with rigid fingers

circa 1920

Radio tuning coil No. 150, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 100, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 300, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 200, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Lap Scales

circa 1920

British War medal - G.F.W. Keen

1920

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sectioned model steam locomotive boiler

circa 1920

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Brass worksplate no 1982, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Locomotive worksplate

1920

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

Model twin-screw steamship 'Engadine', South Eastern & Chatham Railway/Southern Railway

1916

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

1705-1737

Child's china tea plate, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Card of Authority to use portable receiver, 1922

1922

Amplifying valve type V24, 1920-1922

1920-1922

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Popular Wireless no. 1 vol. 1, 1922

1922

Cossor Wurncell W.1 output triode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1923

1923

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Bell from Cable Ship 'Faraday', 1923

1923

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919