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Collection
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Date

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

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

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

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

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

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

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Victory brick of about 1920, 9.5" x 4" x 2.5"

1920

Several straight suture needles

1950-1920

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

circa 1918

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi valve, type F.E.1

1919

McVitie Weston valve collection, MOV-MSI Co. Ltd. valve, type F.E.1

1919