Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Napier's Bones

1690

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Model of the 1922 Shukhov radio tower

2014

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

Electric bone saw

circa 2016

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

1945

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Boxes of Fennings' Little Healers, England, 1940-1970

1940-1970

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Raleigh Moulton bicycle

1970

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

horological gravers

1850-1900

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

horological file

1850-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gecophone broadcast receiver, model B.C 3200, 1924

1924

Model of the Post Office Tower, 2014

2014

Submarine repeater pentode P.O. type 10P, 1950-1970

195-1970

Mullard video output pentode, T.S.P.4, 1920-1936

1920-1936

Pentex production unit: B switch, 1965-1971

1965-1971

Filings coherer, glass tube with side pocket mounted on cylindrical rod with brass screw terminals at ends, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Antenna from Ptarmigan communications system, 1985-2010

1985-2010

Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904