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Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

Surveying

1940

Merlin 45 Aeroplane Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1940

cine projector

Cinematography

c.1940

German two-load left split-hook prosthesis attachment

Orthopaedics

c. 1940

Government issue field operation instrument set

Surgery

1940

Radio with Bakelite case

Plastics and Modern Materials

1940

Saucer, ceramic, by Alfred Meakin, London & North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1940

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c. 1940

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

Printing & Writing

1940

Telephone lineman's headphone

Telecommunications

c.1940

Ice skating on the Serpentine

Photographs

1940-01-23

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

"Morgan Lee" Paper Trimmer

Papermaking

1940

Original cavity magnetron, developed by John Randa

Radio Communication

1940

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

Photographs

1940

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
Railway wagon, No 161042, 50-ton bogie flat wagon, Warflat WC, used by the War Department and British Railways built by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited, 1940. Built to diagram number BR Wagon 73, number built 60. Length over buffers: 43' 10 1/2"; width 7' 10"; height 5'.

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1940
'Bel' cream maker, Empire Jubilee Model. Patent No. 448775. Made in England, c. 1940.

'Bel' cream maker, Empire Jubilee Model. Patent No

Domestic Appliances

c. 1940

Sylvester, coal mining jacking

Coal Mining

c.1940

Fashion photograph

Photographs

c. 1940

Artificial leg made by British prisoner-of-war, Germany, 1940

Orthopaedics

1940

Electric kettle

Domestic Appliances

1940

Mill worker eating lunch

Photographs

1940-01-21

Desk pen set

Television

c. 1940

Joseph Kennedy and Lord Halifax at Westminster Abbey

Photographs

1940-09-03

7x50 binocular with internal filters model CF41 se

Optics

1940

Moving-coil voltmeter

Electricity and Magnetism

1940

Ferranti electric meter

Electricity Supply

1940

Poison Bottle

Public Health & Hygiene

1940

"Morgan Lee" Paper Trimmer

Papermaking

1940
Signal Finial, Great Western Railway, cast iron, ball and spike pattern, for GWR tubular steel signal post

Great Western Railway signal finial

Signalling & Telecommunications

1940

Left above knee peg leg made from leather and wood in Stalag VIIIB/344

Orthopaedics

1940

Collimator for measuring flatness of surfaces

Industrial Metrology

1940

Hovernite high frequency electro-therapy apparatus

Electricity and Magnetism

1940

"Stepnada" 7 x 30 binocular, serial no. 109624 by

Optics

c. 1940

Weston Electrical Electric meter

Electricity Supply

1940

Shipyard worker

Photographs

1940-01-08

Marconi - BBC ribbon microphone

Radio Communication

c.1940

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Baker at work

Photographs

1940-01-15

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type ACT 19

Electronic Components

c. 1940
Horlicks mixer made in England, c.1940

Horlicks mixer made in England, c.1940

Radiomedicine

1940

McVitie Weston valve collection, RCA valve, type VT-103

Electronic Components

1940

Thickness dial gauge made by Thomas Mercer c1940.

Industrial Metrology

c. 1940

McVitie Weston valve collection, Sylvania valve, type 6F8G

Electronic Components

c. 1940

Jiffy Vest Pocket roll film ca

Photographic Technology

c.1940

Ferranti type FL electric supply meter

Electricity Supply

c. 1940

British Thomson Houston milita

Radio Communication

c. 1940

Osram valve

Radio Communication

1940