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Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Collection of sexual aids in a wooden box, Japan, 1930-1939

1930-1939

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

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

1897-1898

'Gynaeplaque' model, United States, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Bottle of cod liver oil

1939-1955

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

1945

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

The Munition Girls

1918

Caesium Atomic Clock, 1955.

1955

Mill Engine

1903

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Canvas straitjacket for adults, London, England, 1930-1960

1930-1960

The Ardente Hearing aid, London, England, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office

1938

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Original laboratory sample of 'M and B 693', England, 1938

1938