Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1945

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

1997

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Prototype Rover gas turbine motor car, JET 1

1946-1950

Napier's Bones

1690

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Excell M2 Pocketphone, 1987.

1987

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

1953-1958

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Portrait bust of Sir Richard Moon

Yorkshire Main Sidings First Aid Box

1900-1920

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

model class 24 diesel locomotive

1960

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

model sudan railways diesel locomotive

1960

Model steam locomotive

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Cut glass perfume bottle with ball-top stopper

1860-1900

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Glass necklace worn to prevent bronchitis, Chelsea, London, England, 1914

1914

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Raleigh Moulton bicycle

1970

Bust of Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

1933

horological gravers

1850-1900

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900