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Date

The Munition Girls

1918

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Dye Sample

1916

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Handcuffs, steel

1918

Red Cross fund-raising brooch made from Zeppelin wire, 1917.

1916-1917

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 Rifle (deactivated)

circa 1917

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model twin-screw steamship 'Engadine', South Eastern & Chatham Railway/Southern Railway

1916

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Morpurgo, Jack Eric

1918 - 2000

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Consul' the Educated Monkey

1916-1918

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

Akeley cine camera

1917

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Gas Alert Rattle, England, 1917

1917

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Ford model T Tourer

1916