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

1953

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

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

1936

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1949

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

1935

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1955

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1942

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

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

1956

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

1925-1958

Russell-Smith Collection

1947-1958

16-ton mineral wagon

1955

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

1951

Class 08 Shunter

1953

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

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

1953

Replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

(1962); 1982

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

1940-1944

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Bottle of cod liver oil

1939-1955

SR 'Winston Churchill' 4-6-2 Battle of Britain Class, No 34051

1946

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

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

1945

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

British Railways railway wagon

1950