List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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Theme / Communication
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Transistor Radio with Earpiece
Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before ...
Contributed by Individual
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Darwin's Beagle Specimen Notebooks
Charles Darwin's Beagle Dry Specimen Catalogues
Contributed by Museum
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Transatlantic Telegraph Cable 1866
Made of a 5mm copper wire 'core' wrapped in a protective casing of tar, hemp and steel this short section of the first ...
Contributed by Individual
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Colossus World's 1st Electronic Computer
Colossus was designed to break the Lorenz cipher, used by German High Command.
Contributed by Museum
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Point Blank - Bruce Springsteen fanzine
I started this fanzine at a time (1980) when Bruce Springsteen fans such as myself were isolated, with little means of ...
Contributed by Individual
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Brewster 3D photograph viewer
The Brewster Viewer is a Victorian stereo photographic instrument, for the first time people could view the world in 3D, ...
Contributed by Individual
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Hudson's Bay Bark Letter
My grandmother left this letter written on birch bark.
July 29 18
Phillips Hudson's Bay Exploratory Party
Fort ...
Contributed by Individual
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Unopened letter to the Russian Front '43
My object is a letter written by my father in 1943 to his brother, who was a soldier on the Russian Front. The family ...
Contributed by Individual
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Box Brownie camera
The first Box Brownie model appeared in 1900. This is a model 2A, made in or shortly after 1916. (It still works!) It ...
Contributed by Individual
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First World War - cease-fire message
When my grandfather Lt Col (later Lt Gen Sir) William Dobbie heard people say what they had done in the Great War, he ...
Contributed by Individual
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National Telephone Directory c1894
This National Telephone Directory contains all the telephone numbers of all subscribers in England, Scotland, Ireland ...
Contributed by Individual
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Eire clay pipe found in Eskimo Alaska
I was sitting last July with an Inupiaq (Eskimo) friend in the deserted village site of Point Hope, Alaska, while he ...
Contributed by Individual
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Poster proclaiming Irish Republic, 1916
An armed rebellion broke out in Dublin on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916. It would pave the way for the political ...
Contributed by Museum
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112 Stamps on a single envelope (1923)
An envelope which contained a short letter to a my grandfather (a Leicester accountant) from Germany posted on 11th ...
Contributed by Individual
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A type writer for the people.
Ernest Vincent Clwyd Crumpton was described as the Keir Hardy of the Leamington Spa Labour Party. I do not know if he ...
Contributed by Individual
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Telephone Exchange Ringing Tone Generatr
It is a Walter Jones & Co. 17Hz ringing tone generator, an example of the emerging ingenuity applied to the early ...
Contributed by Individual
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Building East African Railway 1902-09
My object is precious to me as family history, and as a small but important part of world history. It is the detailed ...
Contributed by Individual
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Portable typewritter - Olivetti Lettera
You might think of the portable typewritter as a forerunner of the computer but its actually far closer to writing than ...
Contributed by Individual
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'Cat's Whisker' radio device
At the Â鶹Éç Guernsey half-term event for A History of the World, Julia Blondin contributed this 'Cat's Whisker' radio ...
Contributed by Individual
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Travelling Post Office Mailbag Apparatus
The Travelling Post Office, short TPO was first introduced in 1838. The TPO is closely linked with Rowland Hill’s penny ...
Contributed by Individual
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Postcards from the trenches
Personal messages were sent by the owner's grandfather to his wife and children. He sent them from the Somme and came ...
Contributed by Individual
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Suffolk Woodsman's Prayer Book and Diary
Leonie Robinson came to Â鶹Éç Radio Suffolk with an amazing book, which belonged to her great, great, great ...
Contributed by Individual
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Parlor guitar
This is a reproduction of a late 1800s parlor guitar by the Martin Guitar company.
Parlor or parlour guitar usually ...
Contributed by Individual
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Baird Televisor
This was possibly the last time a lone inventor working in difficult conditions (rented room in Hastings) and with ...
Contributed by Individual
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Public Telephone sign
In the early days of telephones there were competing networks of telephones. Hull Corporation ran a public network and ...
Contributed by Individual
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Two Penny Mulready Envelope
Issued at the same time as the now famous Penny Black stamp were decorated postal stationery envelopes designed by ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Joseph Gilmore Map of Bath, BoBC
This map depicts the city still largely contained within its medieval walls. It provides a fascinating glimpse of the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Model of Palmer’s First Mailcoach
A one third size model of John Palmer’s original mail coach. This was the coach which John Palmer of Bath hired from the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Ralph Allen’s Postal Contract
In the early 18th century all mail went via London making it very slow and expensive. Allen reorganised the system so ...
Contributed by Individual
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Domestic Bell - Museum of Bath at Work
A major difference in larger Victorian and Edwardian homes was the installation of domestic bells which allowed ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Lego Building Brick
The Lego Brick began in 1934 it was designed by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The initial design was simple but clever. It ...
Contributed by Individual
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Letter Written by 7th Cavalry Member
This letter, written by Walter R. Crickett, a member of the 7th Cavalry at Fort Riley, Pine Ridge, graphically describes ...
Contributed by Individual
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Model Post Boy – Bath Postal Museum
An 18th century beautifully carved wooden model of a standing post boy holding a letter. This would have been used ...
Contributed by Individual
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Tenor Bell – Bath Abbey
The Abbey’s tenor bell weighs 33 cwt, about the same as a small car! It is inscribed: ‘All of you Bathe that hear me ...
Contributed by Individual
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Postcard Marking the 1st 100 Mile Flight
BC Hucks piloted the first plane to carry mail over 100 miles. It flew off from Glasshouse Bath, to London on 24th May ...
Contributed by Individual
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Wall of letter boxes, Bath Postal Museum
The oldest of these early wall boxes, dated 1857, is painted green and was soon replaced because it lacked a protective ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Celtic Curse - The Roman Baths
This small but unique object contains the only surviving words written in British Celtic. Although we can read the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Georgian Loveletter, 1 Royal Crescent
A love letter, written in Bath in 1785, by an unknown lovelorn author, bears a heartfelt poem to 'Louisa Fair' and is ...
Contributed by Individual
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Printing Press
ALBION PRINTING PRESS. The Printing Industry has been a significant employer in the Country since the late eighteenth ...
Contributed by Museum
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Peterloo Massacre Handkerchief
A meeting of reformers demanding the right to vote was dispersed in Manchester in 1819, with 18 dead and over 400 ...
Contributed by Museum
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Letter from George Frideric Handel
The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter to his friend and librettist Charles Jennens on 19th July 1744. ...
Contributed by Museum
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A Section of the Transatlantic cable
Birmingham conceived and made, a revolutionary cable which enabled the first successful transatlantic communication
Contributed by Museum
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Gertrude Emily Benham's Tibetan Boots
Leather boots worn by world traveller and record breaking mountaineer Gertrude Benham who ascended over 300 peaks.
Contributed by Museum
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The Balaklava Bugle
The Balaklava Bugle was used to sound the Charge of the Light brigade on 25th October 1854, during the Crimean War.
Contributed by Museum
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Maltese Cross used by John Logie Baird
St Johns Ambulance Maltese Cross. The first object to be transmitted as an image in early television experiments
Contributed by Museum
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Packet mail bag
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL. For ...
Contributed by Museum
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Dolly Pentreath
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. This portrait shows ...
Contributed by Museum
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War diaries
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
REDRUTH TOWN MUSEUM. John French is, ...
Contributed by Museum
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Steam locomotive
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
BODMIN AND WENFORD RAILWAY. Railways ...
Contributed by Museum
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Spratt's diary
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
PORTHCURNO TELEGRAPH MUSEUM. Porthcurno ...
Contributed by Museum