Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

SIM card for the MTN mobile network, 2012

2012

Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull

1801-1900

Votive penis

200 BCE - 200 CE

Ancient Greek Cupping Cup

400 BCE- 100 BCE

Surgical post-mortem needles

circa 2016

Pathologists' brain knife

circa 2016

Russell-Smith Collection

1947-1958

Electric bone saw

circa 2016

Sodium-ion battery made by Faradion Limited

2022

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

1976

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Carding Engine

Electrogalvanic amulet

1870-1930

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

DEC PDP-8 minicomputer, 1965.

1965

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Altair 8800b computer system, 1977-1982

1977-1982

Earthview 3D software, 2001-2004

2001-2004

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Motorola 'MicroTAC Classic' mobile telephone, 1991-2000

1991-2000

United States Army Air Force camera

1940-1945

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

BT Tone Master pager, 1975-2000

1975-2000

Motorola 'International 8700' mobile telephone, 1996

1996

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Tape dispenser and Scotch sticky tape

2000-2004

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

Bogie hopper wagon

1953

Great Western Railway Mogo

1935

British Railways railway wagon

1950

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Wet and dry bulb psychrometer for humidity measurement

1960-1970

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775