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Steam Locomotive, named Winston Churchill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1945

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

Biotechnology

1945

Receiver unit from the ENIAC computer, 1943-1945

Computing & Data Processing

1943-1945

Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

Surveying

1940

V2 Rocket, A4 missile

Space Technology

1945

Gyroscope platform

Space Technology

1945

Artificial right arm

Orthopaedics

1943

Merlin 45 Aeroplane Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1940

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

Penicillin powder in bottle

Biotechnology

1942

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Wireless set no. 38 Mk. II serial no. 6319, 1942-1945

Radio Communication

1942-1945

cine projector

Cinematography

c.1940

immersion suit blouse

Textile Industry

c.1945

Artificial right leg, Singapore, c.1943

Orthopaedics

1942-1945

German two-load left split-hook prosthesis attachment

Orthopaedics

c. 1940

Petri dish showing the effect of Penicillin on bacteria, United Kingdom, 1944

Biotechnology

1944
Steam locomotive, No 33001, Q1 Class, 0-6-0, Southern Railway, designed by O V Bulleid, built at Brighton in 1942, withdrawn in 1964. Weight: 51.25 tons; length 54 feet, 10 ½ inches; driving wheel diameter: 5 feet, 1 inch (according to H C Casserley).

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No 33001, 1942

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1942

Pennies and sixpences welded together as a result of bombing raid in 1942, found at York Station

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1942

Glass ampoules of penicillin

Therapeutics

1944

Penicillin fermentation vessel, England, 1940-1945

Biotechnology

1940-1945

Ampoule of penicillin

Therapeutics

1945

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

Biotechnology

1940-1944

Government issue field operation instrument set

Surgery

1940

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Radio with Bakelite case

Plastics and Modern Materials

1940

Wartime civilian receiver A.C.mains type, 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

radio

Radio Communication

c.1944

Components from Colossus project, 1940-1945

Computing & Data Processing

1940-1945

B.S.A. folding bicycle, c. 1942

Road Transport

c.1942

Psychological sorting test, United States, 1945

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1945

Typex Mk III cypher machine for field use, c. 1945

Radio Communication

1945

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

Passenger Comforts

1940

Samaritans SIGN, 1943

Telecommunications

1943

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c. 1940

BBC ribbon microphone

Radio Communication

c.1945

'Picture Post' magazine. March 6, 1943

Domestic Appliances

1943

Positioning in Radiography

Radiomedicine

1942

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

Printing & Writing

1940

Wooden chest for transporting penicillin during WWII

Biotechnology

1942 - 1945

Telephone lineman's headphone

Telecommunications

c.1940

F2/2 axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1942

W2/700 Gas Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1941

BBC ribbon microphone

Radio Communication

c.1945

Poster to recruit blood donors during the Second World War

Public Health & Hygiene

1943

Ice skating on the Serpentine

Photographs

1940-01-23

Secraphone secure telephone handset, about 1941

Telecommunications

1940-1941

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE