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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Model railway turntable

1850

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

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

1797-1804

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

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)

1832-1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

London Brighton & South Coast Railway tool chest

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Coast Navigator

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

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

1936

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

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

1853-1857

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Automatic tea-making machine

1902-1910