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The Munition Girls

1918

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Dye Sample

1916

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Handcuffs, steel

1918

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

1916-1917

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1918

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

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

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

1916-1918

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

1705-1737

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

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

1916

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

1917

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

circa 1917

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

Akeley cine camera

1917

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

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

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Audio cassette, 'Alf's Teeth' produced for British Rail Red Star parcels services

1985-11

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Blood transfusion apparatus believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertson

1917-1918

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

BBC 'Bijou' Crystal Set Receiver Type 6

1923-07

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80