Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Scold's Bridle Mask which partially covers face

1550-1800

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600

London Midland & Scottish Railway decorative crest

1928

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1752

Logic door from a Ferranti Mark I computer, 1951

1951

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, 1962-1967

1962-1967

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Lucas grapnel, 1888-1960

1888-1960

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, 1890-1910

1890-1910

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Drum shaped clock from the third quarter of the 16th Century

1550-1575

Roving frame

1927

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Small drum-shaped clock from the second quarter of the 16th Century

1525-1550

Pair of obstetrical forceps

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

Single ended wrench

1880-1950

'Leesona' Pirn Winder

1893-1959

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Gothic-style German chamber clock

1400-1499

Wooden alms box

1601-1800