Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

The Munition Girls

1918

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Handcuffs, steel

1918

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1918

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

1934

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

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

report and statement of accounts of the carlisle and border counties brotherhood

1919

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

The Cunard Line

1918

Soldiers pushing a car up a hill

1934-05

Car driving up a hill past spectators

1934-05

Motor car engine

1919

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

1730; 1967

A photographic print of Home & Housing, Pre War Only, Housing - Slums - Wales Only

1939-05

Aneurin Bevan opens West Glamorgan County Hospital

18 Janury 1948

A photographic print of Home & Housing, Pre War Only, Housing - Slums - Scotland Only

1956-09

Daily Herald Photograph: Ploughing Championship

1949-11

A photographic print of Industry, Saddle Making

1950-08

A photographic print of Industry, Shipbuilding, Miscellaneous - General Views of Boats in Stocks, Launching

1940-05

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

1940-06

A photographic print of Films, "Ships with Wings"

1941-04

A photographic print of Industry, Textiles - Cloth, Silk From Glass

1943-12

A photographic print of Industry, Shipbreaking

1935-01