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Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

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

1933

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Ogden's patent 1898. "Annular" Steam Trap No.140 in gunmetal

Holt's patent cylinder drain and relief valve

model of slot or cotter-hole drilling machine

1857

Lawaczeck Turbine Runner, 1925

1925

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

1927

Toolholder with clamps for square

Lignum Vitae saw

1804-1807

Automation Mechanism for 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

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

1821

Gun packed cock

1874-1880

Hollman combined journal and thrust roller bearing

1925

Steam locomotive, number 1439

1865

Magneto Port Type ZH6 No. 2090658, for 230 H.P. Benz Aero engine No. 33.278

1926

Component from a model of stationary pattern Exhaust Steam Injector

1921

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

1941

Tyre bending machine and combined drill by W. Affleck, Swindon

1853-1891

Line shaft ring oiled plummer block

1929

Murphy V230 Portable Television Receiver, 1954

1954

Beam engine and associated component

1820-40

One and half inch gunmetal patent asbestos packed cock with screwed ends, used in boiler fittings

1874-1880

Set of bankers' weights, weighing 500 sovereigns to half a sovereign

1886

Geared universal cutting frame with interchangeable spindles

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Mortising machine, yard No. 1896

1804-1807

Hawkesworth 'Pannier tank' No. 9400, Great Western Railway

1947
230 H.P. Benz six-cylinder water cooled aero engine No. 33.278, by Benz & Cie, Mannheim, Germany, 1916. Later, the engine No. 33.278 is ascribed with British War Department number: W.D. No. 101,863.

230 H.P. Benz six-cylinder water cooled aero engine No. 33.278

1916
Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine, Corliss valve gear, by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, 1898. Part sectioned to show valves, scale 1:6

Horizontal Engine with Corliss Valve Gear, c. 1898

1898
Partly sectioned 100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, built by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1892 for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company.

100 K.W. Parsons' Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, partly sectioned

1892
Crown saw, yard No. 1909

Crown saw, yard No. 1909

1804-1807
Whitworth's workshop length measuring machine for measuring to an accuracy of 1/40,000 inch.

Whitworth's workshop length measuring machine for measuring to an accuracy of 1/40

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

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

circa 1800
Six column beam engine, unsigned, British, 1820-1840, and used by JA & W Lyon, Bleachers, Leo Street, Peckham, to drive a set of drying rolls, 1836-1905.

Beam engine

1820-1840
Model of a sugar cane mill, c.1850

Model of a sugar cane mill

circa 1850
Model representing Murray's portable beam engine, by James Fox, Derby, 1808

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808
Original coaking machine, built by Henry Maudslay and installed at in the block mills at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1804

Original coaking machine, installed at Portsmouth

1804
12-inch diameter series 'O' Gilkes' Francis Turbine (4.2 bhp on nett working fall of 5 ft. using 570 cubic ft of water per minute; 270 rpm), with suspension bearing, steel countershaft, and hand operating gear for working guide-blades. Developed by James Bicheno Francis, it became widely accepted as the best for heads of water up to 50 m. Manufactured by Gilbert Gilkes & Co., Kendal, Cumbria, England, 1924.

Francis Turbine, 1924

1924
Copper fuel-line with ‘elbow bend’ and pipe connector at each end, unsigned, Europe, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Copper fuel-line with ‘elbow bend’, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1973
Cornish Pumping Engine built by Harvey & Co of Hayle, Cornwall, for display at the International Exhibition of 1862

Cornish Pumping Engine, 1862

1862
Sextant with polished brass and gunmetal frame, polished brass limb, detachable wooden handle and fitted mahogany case, by Matthew Berge, London, England, 1810-1815. Consists of inlaid polished silver 131° scale (-2° to 155°) with 20’ divisions and vernier, four index-filter shades (red & green) and three horizon filters (red & green), scale magnifier on 80mm swivelling arm. Fitted with threaded telescope bracket for sighting telescopes (62mm – erect image 134mm – inverted image & 58mm – tube) and detachable silvered plate for reading scales.

Brass framed sextant.

1810-1815
Screw propeller of HMS 'Rattler' (1843), unknown maker, England, 1843

Screw propeller of HMS Rattler

1843
Fuel throttle valve, in gun-metal elbow, from ‘Gnome’ 50 HP 7-cylinder rotary aero engine, designed by Louis Seguin and Laurent Seguin, and made by La Société des Moteurs Gnome, France, 1908

Fuel throttle valve

1908
Parkers automatic screw making machine, size A, by Greenwood and Batley Ltd.

Parkers automatic screw making machine

circa 1880
Grasshopper beam engine, from the South London Brewery, Southwark, possibly by Easton and Amos, c. 1851

Grasshopper Steam Engine, c. 1851

1851