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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Dye Sample

1916

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1934

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1916

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

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Surgical instrument set, Royal Army Medical Corps

1917

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Triumph Model H Motorcycle

1917

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

The Munition Girls

1918

Field clinometer, British, 1916

1916

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

1916-1918

M L magneto type RF4 no.112, c. 1917, sectioned

1917

German Albatros DV single seater fighter, 1917.

1917

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Hypodermic syringe

1917

Wieland der Schmied

1917

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Small stub-stemmed meerschaum tobacco pipe

1950-1900

Field induction telegraph set, 1917 model

1917

Wooden mechanical hand with a rigid thumb

1918

Eight small pieces of the airship Zeppelin L32

1916

Kneeling type leather prosthesis for a very short flexed left below knee stump

circa 1918

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Bille receiver (re-perforator), c. 1916, No. 48974

1916

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

2 packets of tissue paper containing four celluloid eyepieces

1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, Siemens-Schottky valve, type GV15

circa 1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, Telefunken valve, type E.V.N. 94

1916

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi WT Co Round valve, type T

1917