Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Whirling Psychrometer, 1950-1953

1950-1953

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

1997

Excell M2 Pocketphone, 1987.

1987

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

1940-1944

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

horological gravers

1850-1900

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904

1894-1904

horological file

1850-1900

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

1953-1958

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1894-1904

Filter used to produce radioactive water

1901-1930

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Specimen of lightweight transatlantic telephone cable, 1961

1961

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

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

1894-1904

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Plaster death mask of J.J. Lister F.R.S. (1786-1869)

1869-1927

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

195-1970

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Coherer, narrow-bore glass tube, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

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

1920-1936

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demonstration model with intrauterine device and inserter

1960-1979

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Cut glass perfume bottle with ball-top stopper

1860-1900

Gecophone broadcast receiver, model B.C 3200, 1924

1924

Filings coherer, glass tube with side-pocket attached to mounting bracket, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end with bulb to form side-pocket on mounting bracket with terminals, 1894-1904

1894-1904

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Pentex production unit: B switch, 1965-1971

1965-1971

Single-needle telegraph by W. F. Cooke, 1840-1860

1840-1860

horological gravers

1850-1900

Model of adenovirus

1974-1976

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Pair of metal-rimmed spectacles with wire mesh protecters

1891-1920