Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Japanese magic mirror

Model of Stephenson's Rocket

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Globtik Tokyo

circa 1972

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

'Form M Revised Stanford-Binet Scales', IQ test, United States, 1937

1937-1960

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Electronic storm surge modelling machine made by Shizuo Ishiguro

1960-2007

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Moisture Tester

Great spinning wheel

Box Stool

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Carriage Ashtray from Quintinshill Disaster

1915

London & North Eastern Railway gallantry medal

1947

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

Train Spotters are Prohibited from Entering this Yard

1950-1969

Truncheon, found at Clapham Junction

Relief Plan, Poplar Dock Depot

circa 1955

Shrub Hill Road level crossing notice

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Clock, London & North Western Railway

Station clock

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Gauge from London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

Wooden and brass angle gauge

Screwdriver from London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

Chisel from London, Brighton & South Coast Railway