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Steam Locomotive, named Winston Churchill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1945

V2 Rocket, A4 missile

Space Technology

1945

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

Biotechnology

1945

Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

Surveying

1940

Gyroscope platform

Space Technology

1945

Government issue field operation instrument set

Surgery

1940

immersion suit blouse

Textile Industry

c.1945

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Radio with Bakelite case

Plastics and Modern Materials

1940

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Japanese Piloted Bomb

Aeronautics

1943

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

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1942

Artificial right leg, Singapore, c.1943

Orthopaedics

1942-1945

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin

Telecommunications

1942-1945
Steam locomotive, No 33001, Q1 Class, 0-6-0, Southern Railway, designed by O V Bulleid, built at Brighton in 1942, withdrawn in 1964.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

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

Biotechnology

1944

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

Penicillin fermentation vessel, England, 1940-1945

Biotechnology

1940-1945

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

Biotechnology

1940-1944

Penicillin powder in bottle

Biotechnology

1942

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Glass ampoules of penicillin

Therapeutics

1944

Ampoule of penicillin

Therapeutics

1945

Artificial right arm

Orthopaedics

1943

German two-load left split-hook prosthesis attachment

Orthopaedics

c. 1940

Receiver unit from the ENIAC computer, 1943-1945

Computing & Data Processing

1943-1945

"Morgan Lee" Paper Trimmer

Papermaking

1940

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

Radio Communication

1944-1945

'Picture Post' magazine. March 6, 1943

Domestic Appliances

1943

Positioning in Radiography

Radiomedicine

1942

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

Passenger Comforts

1940

Samaritans SIGN, 1943

Telecommunications

1943

Wooden chest for transporting penicillin during WWII

Biotechnology

1942 - 1945

BSA folding bicycle, c. 1940

Road Transport

c.1940

F2/2 axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1942

W2/700 Gas Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1941

Goldstein-Scheerer Test

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1945

Secraphone secure telephone handset, about 1941

Telecommunications

1940-1941

Poster to recruit blood donors during the Second World War

Public Health & Hygiene

1943

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

Radio Communication

1942-1945
Valve in holder, from Colossus project, designed by Tommy Flowers, made at the Post Office Research Station and used at the Government Code and Ciphers School at Bletchley Park, 1940-1945

valve from Colossus project, 1940-1945

Computing & Data Processing

1940-1945

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

Printing & Writing

1940

Psychological sorting test, United States, 1945

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1945

Ice skating on the Serpentine

Photographs

1940-01-23

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

Public Health & Hygiene

1940-1945

Telechrome tube

Television

1944

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

Photographs

1940

Original cavity magnetron, developed by John Randa

Radio Communication

1940
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