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100 Years of Progress, 1835-1935

1935

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

1953

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

1871

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1942

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

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

1935

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Model of human eye

1870

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

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

1953

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Ekco AD75 radio receiver, 1946

1946

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Matisa tamping machine

1949

Class 08 Shunter

1953

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Zenith X-ray tube and shield

1901-1913

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920