Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

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

1790-1819

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

1790-1819

Notice, cardboard and tin

Empty tin of Glucose with Vitamin D

1924-1960

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

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

1933

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

1909-1910

First Aid Tins

Ink scale

1940-1960

Sensitive Hair Element

1941

Set of thirty Napier's brass rods in tin case

1670-1699

Pocket Rotoscope

1900-1920

Foot and Body Powder Tin

Salvarsan kit

1909-1912

Edward Jenner's tobacco box, Europe, 1820-1821

1810-1821

'P & K' artificial left arm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1920-1925

1920-1925

Objective Cover Glass Fasteners

1920-1925

'Capstan' Navy Cut tobacco box, 1921-1939

1921-1939

Agfa Flash Light Outfit

1905-1915

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Lamb and Flag' Cornish tin.

Exactus adder

1945-1955

Space food, Stewed apples made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station, by Altec.

2015

Minox B sub miniature camera, c 1965

1960-1970

Part of a selection of 13 application electrodes

1890-1910

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

Tin badge, with a text "Stone Age? No Thanks Atoms for Energy"

Set of paint brushes & paint, British, 1875-1901

1875-1901

Model, of the third-class protected cruiser the HMS 'Magicienne' (1888)

1888-1901

Model of the twin screw Hopper Steam Dredger 'Gefion'

1885-1894

Working model of Destroyer HMS 'Antelope'

1927-1933

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

1903

Tin of SMA infant milk formula powder, Europe, 1980

1980

Tin of Similac infant milk powder, Europe, 1980

1980

Quarter-repeating watch movement, ready for finishing

circa 1820

Dallan Developing Tank

1925-1935

H.V. Roe Uniform Storage Box

1895-1905

Replica of an electroscope (c. 1900) used by Ernest Rutherford for his experiments on alpha rays

1964-1974

Robert Paul's Theatrograph Projector No 2 Mark 1

1896

Ritchie's patent liquid compass with hollow metal cross type compass rose in tin bowl

07-04-1863

Counter scale

1880-1900

25 components from the sidereal and mean time clock designed by Joseph Vines

1830-1840

Two lighting fuse wires and eight light bulb components

1978

Cleaning Outfit Mark V Anti-Dimming Polish

1939

Light Sensitive Paper

1900-1920

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

1945-1955