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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

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

1953

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

The Munition Girls

1918

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1935

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

(1962); 1982

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

1925-1958

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Helmet, Great Western Railway, Fireman

1912

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

1925-1935

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Canvas straitjacket for adults, London, England, 1930-1960

1930-1960

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Bragg X-ray spectrometer, England, 1910-1926

1910-1926

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Artifcial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

'Paragon' Reusable Rubber Condom, London, England, 1948-1950

1948-1950

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Addac adding machine

1926

Penguin book

1948

Penguin book

1946