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Collection
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Date

The Munition Girls

1918

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Wooden prosthetic hand with rigid fingers

circa 1920

Dye Sample

1916

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Handcuffs, steel

1918

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

1916-1917

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

McKay artificial left arm

1920

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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

1934

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lap Scales

circa 1920

Sectioned model steam locomotive boiler

circa 1920

British War medal - G.F.W. Keen

1920

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

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

1705-1737

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

1917

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Trephine used in experiments on Neolithic trephination

1918-1920

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

circa 1917

Brass worksplate no 1982, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Locomotive worksplate

1920

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

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

1916-1918

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Royal 10 typewriter

1920

Blood transfusion apparatus believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertson

1917-1918

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979