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Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

McKay artificial left arm

1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Wooden prosthetic hand with rigid fingers

circa 1920

Novelty model

1955; 1830

"Swiftsure" copper posser by the British Vacuum Wsher Co. of Islington

1921

Handcuffs, steel

1918

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

The Munition Girls

1918

Lap Scales

circa 1920

British War medal - G.F.W. Keen

1920

"Ogee-de-Luxe" face massager

1920

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

circa 1917

Brass worksplate no 1982, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Locomotive worksplate

1920

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

1934

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

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

1917

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Trephine used in experiments on Neolithic trephination

1918-1920

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1918

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Sectioned model steam locomotive boiler

circa 1920

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Souvenir flag produced for World War One ambulance train

1917

Monotype Vertical Milling Machine

1919

Monotype Bench Drilling Machine

1919

Newspaper clipping of William Friese-Greene's funeral

14 May 1921

Album of press cuttings about the death of William Friese-Greene in 1921

circa 1921

flying coat

circa 1918

Director class "Butler Henderson", Great Central Railway

1920

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Wooden mechanical hand with a rigid thumb

1918

Balloon theodolite by E.R. Watts & Son

1917