Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

2014

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

Replica Arkwright water frame

1983

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Box of blood grouping sera

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Cervical cap, ‘Improved Gem’ type

1930-1960

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

1933

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Three neck flat bottomed round flask

Three neck flat bottomed round flask

Model of a Sri Lankan rowing boat

1900-1924

Three neck flat bottomed round flask

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Billcliff Half-Plate Field Camera

1880-1890

Cotton comber web (Nasmith Comber)

Cotton card sliver

Pirn Winder

1780-1790

Flat bottomed round flask with long neck

"Ruby" Reflex Camera

1920-1925

Lancashire loom

1890 - 1910

Pince-nez nose spectacles with round lenses

1860-1910

Black carrying case for pair of Zoom 7x to 14x35 binoculars

1970-1979

Surgical knife with scabbard

1801-1900

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Sample of Terylene

1940-1947

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

X-Ray Tube

1900-1930

Travelling thermometer by Carpenter & Westley

1801-1900

Cotton Staples

1900-1914

Volume of dye shade cards

1865-1925

Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular

Flying shuttle

1920-1960