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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Hirtz's compass for locating bullets, Paris, France, 1915

Clinical Diagnosis

1915

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871
Original screw-cutting lathe, made by Henry Maudslay, end of 18th century

Henry Maudslay's original screw-cutting lathe, c.1800

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Iron used by patients in psychiatric hospital, c. 1920-1940

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1889-1990

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

Motive Power

1805-1806

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

Hand and Machine Tools

1804-1807

National Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1928

Yarmouth South Town bench

Railway Furniture

Wrapping Block

Textile Industry

c. 1920

Early Wheeler and Wilson hand-powered lock stitch sewing mac

Textiles Machinery

Robert Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Lancashire Boiler

Motive Power

1889

Stirling's hot air engine, c. 1816.

Heat Engines (non steam)

1811-1826

'Rapid' marmalade cutter

Domestic Appliances

c. 1932

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Marine Engines

1894

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Machine for reproducing sculpture

Hand and Machine Tools

1826
Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1842-1858

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Anglo-American Arab Platen Printing Machine, 1842-1880

Printing & Writing

1842-1880

Pakistan Railways steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1911
Six-foot speculum [metal] mirror on travelling carriage from the Great Rosse Telescope, the 'Leviathan of Parsonstown', built by the Third Earl of Rosse at Birr, Ireland, 1844-46.

Mirror for the Great Rosse Telescope, 1844-1846

Astronomy

1844-1846

Milling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1870-1900

Crossley Type IHD4 Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1960

Bradbury Sewing Machine

Textile Industry

1880-1900

Gate valve from Mather and Platt sprinkler system

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

Bradbury Sewing Machine

Textile Industry

1875-1900

Willcox and Gibbs chain-stitch sewing machine, c 1914.

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Table engine model, scale approx. 1:2

Motive Power

1807; 1815

Inverted Vertical Steam Engine, 1848-1850

Motive Power

1848-1850

'Imperial' Printing Press

Printing & Writing
Original pilot Bessemer converter from which the first cast of steel was poured at the works of the Barrow Haematite Steel Company Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, in May 1865

Original pilot Bessemer converter, 1865.

Metallurgy

1865

Beyer-Garratt South African Railways Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1929
Lawn mower, built by J. R and A. Ransomes of Ipswich to Edwin Budding's patent No.3157 of 1830

Budding's patent lawn mower, 1832.

Agricultural Engineering

1832

Ericsson Caloric Engine, c. 1869

Heat Engines (non steam)

1855-1874
Train staff instrument, Webb & Thompson type, No 2020, cast metal pillar type, painted red, with staffs, Kippax-Garforth line.

webb & thompson train staff instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

Linotype 78 Linecasting Machine

Printing & Writing

Albion Printing Press, 1838

Printing & Writing

1838

Rose engine lathe used to manufacture compound printing plates, built by Bryan Donkin, London, 1821.

Hand and Machine Tools

1821

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926