Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

1968-1971

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Multo Brunsviga type barrel calculating machine

1950-1960

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Turned wood mortar and pestle

1651-1850

Pewter tea-pot, used by Lord Nelson, inscribed: 'Battle of Trafalgar 1805'

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Assyrian terracotta brick

860-825 BCE

A pair of dice made in imitation ivory celluloid, early 20th century.

1901-1930

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Sea-surface temperature bucket, Crawford type

1960-1970

Statue depicting 'Shou-hsing'

1801-1900

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Votive right leg and foot

200 BCE -200 CE

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Model of adenovirus

1974-1976

Pill tile with four short legs

1701-1800

Disease mask for healing rituals

Bottle of liquid extract of Cinchona

1940-1949

Electronic induction motor for Dry Cupping Vacuum Therapy

1980-1990

Ivory netsuke in the form of doctor and patient

1871-1900

Stone amulet contained within a leather purse

Ivory figure of a man massaging the back of reading man

1701-1900

Statue of White Tara

1801-1900

Silver-gilt medicine spoon

1801-1920

Painted Marurassa mask

1771-1900

Boxwood human torso showing internal organs

1800-1920

Amulet to ward against the evil eye

1901-1911

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Medresco Portable Hearing Aid

1953

Sample of Simulated Intermediate Level Waste by BNFL, 1990.

1990-1991

Bronchitis amulet

1914

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Case for phantom larynx

1870-1916

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900

Piorry type monaural stethoscope

1834-1883

Copy of a blood-grouping tile

1970-1981

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Cupping horn with small leather strip covering perfortion at tip

1831-1920

Chinese lancet