Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

'Self-Conscious Gene' sculpture by Marc Quinn

2019

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Order of Industrial Heroism medal awarded to fireman Albert George Powell Marsh

1955

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Early London made pendulum clock by Edward East

1601-1700

Votive left leg

100 BCE-500CE

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Horizontal sundial in bronze

1551

Bronze medallion, Order for Industrial Heroism - Silas J Bray

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

German striking watch by an unknown maker

1580

German striking watch by an unknown maker

1600

Early English verge watch by Michael Nouwen

1600

Gold watch with quarter repeating by Brounker Watts

1700-1725

Silver clock-watch by Henricus Mott

1660

Gothic-style German chamber clock

1400-1499

Travelling 'coach' watch by Edward East

1640-1660

Orrery clock with a glass celestial globe

1795-1805

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Section of Superconducting cable

2013

Bronze statue of Osiris, Egypt, 1000-400 BCE

1000-400 BCE

'Santa Medicina' sculpture by Eleanor Crook

2019

Bronze male anatomical figure on a marble stand, 1750-1800.

1750-1800

Medal awarded at the London Exhibtion of 1862

1862

Bronze statue of Imhotep, Egypt, 600-30 BCE

600-30 BCE

Bronze cup-shaped sundial

1601-1630

Fowler mole plough c.1920

1915-1925

Bronze "bow" type fibula brooch

Bronze mirror with light patina, Roman

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

1894

Manchester standard gallon, 1754

Outside Myself II

2000

silver plated bronze religious medallion

1816-1817

Silver plated bronze prize medal

1801-1854

Gilt bronze medal to commemorate revolutionary France

1792

Gilt bronze trade token of Denton

1795

Replica of the Nobel Medal for Physics awarded to Professor Peter Higgs

2013