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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

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

1953

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1942

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

1935

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

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

1945

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

English Electric Company diesel electric locomotive 'Deltic' Co-Co 3300HP, 1955

1955

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

1937-1960

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

1953

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Pinard type foetal stethoscope

1870-1920

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Russell-Smith Collection

1947-1958

bicycle, 'Rudge', 21" lady's frame, 1956.

1956

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Ampoule of penicillin

1945

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898