Image
Category
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

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

1927

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

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

1821

Four-Barrel Piston Pump

1817

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

1947

Beam engine and associated component

1820-40

Automation Mechanism for 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

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

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

1941

Steam locomotive, number 1439

1865

Lignum Vitae saw

1804-1807

Model of James Nasmyth's direct-action steam hammer

1843-1857

Mortising machine, yard No. 1896

1804-1807

Geared universal cutting frame with interchangeable spindles

Murphy V230 Portable Television Receiver, 1954

1954

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

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808

Model of a sugar cane mill, c.1850

Model of a sugar cane mill

circa 1850

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

Original coaking machine, installed at Portsmouth

1804

Toolholder with clamps for square

Lawaczeck Turbine Runner, 1925

1925

model of slot or cotter-hole drilling machine

1857

Holt's patent cylinder drain and relief valve

1878

Waynes Semi-rotary engine indicator with all accessories

Gun packed cock

1874-1880

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

No.2 size Round Rotary Counter (Six figure)

1881-1919

Darke's high speed steam engine indicator no.421

1879-1888

'Scarab' Patent oil burner

1921

2" diam. Single Deadweight Safety Valve

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

1886

Bamford Swathe-Turner

1917-1958

Revolution counter, inscribed with numbers

1862

Shaping machine, yard No. 1906

Shaping machine, yard No. 1906

1804-1807

Wilson Klotz

1889

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

1926

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

1874-1880

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

1853-1891

Hollman combined journal and thrust roller bearing

1925

Component from a model of stationary pattern Exhaust Steam Injector

1921

Line shaft ring oiled plummer block

1929

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

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

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