Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Knochenhauer spirals, 1963

1963

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephone, 1959

1959

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephone, 1959

1959

Model of Chambers' Signal Interlocking Frame

c.1912

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Wooden model railway points

Model of Brunel's Disc and Crossbar Signal

c.1912

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Model of the PS 'Great Western'

1937

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

1930s (1888)

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Faraday's specific inductive capacity apparatus, 1837, replica

1837

Roman abacus

1974

Model of Blenkinsop rack locomotive, made by the Science Museum

1910

Glass positive:- Halley's Comet

1910

Glass copy negative of Leeds Bridge by Louis Le Prince

1933 (1888)

3 plans of the Science Museum's Southern Galleries

1908-1912

Plaster cast of mediaeval corbel in the roof of St. Martin's

1200-1500 (original)

Bromide print of Burrough's adding and listing machine

1925

Blaise pascal

1925

Photograph of engraving

1925

Photograph of engraving of "Mathematical Ring"

1925

Photograph of engraving of Napier's Bones

1925

Polystyrene head cut into six sections to represent the planes of tomographic scans made by a CAT brain scanner

1977

Coloured drawing depicting French hand-powered silk throwing mill

Nebula in Cygnus

1910-07

Nebula in Cygnus; NGC 6960; RA

1910-07-04

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

Model of the mechanism of Cartwright's engine

1902

Six Cast Iron Vertical Handrail Supports

"All Stations" - A Journey Through 150 Years

1978

Poster, National Railway Museum

1975

Copies of the Joule calorimeter

1800-1899

Animated diagram, N.P.L caesium atomic clock

1961

Faraday electrolysis tube

1833

Model of lithium atom, showing Bohr orbits

Enlarged model to show the principle of the knitting machine, made at the Science Museum

Sectional drawing of the cylinder of Trevithick's model locomotive

1890

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Drawing of curves to be placed under Boys' curve-drawing integrator

1917

Glass Positive of Hubble’s Classification of ‘Nebulae’

1930

Centre-handle graver (from circulation collection)

1970-1975

Dot graver (from the Circulation collection)

1970-1975

Scale model of Tycho Brahe's triquetrum

1973

Model of Ptolomy's triquetrum with perspex glazed cover

1972