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

2050-1750 BCE

Statue of Taweret, Cairo, Egypt, 1925-1933

1925-1933

Statue depicting Shou Lao (Shou Xing), Chinese God of Longevity

before 1930

Cigarette Dispenser

1925-1935

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

1990-95

Circular powder box of cream urea formaldehyde

1931-1940

Regis 6 Motor Car by Crossley Motors

1935

Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

1936-1940

Industrial first aid kit, United Kingdom, 1924-1930

1924-1930

Polyfoto camera

1933

Tangye Hydraulic Press

1930

Glass ampoule of penicillin powder, United States, 1942-1943

1942-1943

Bartholomew's Railway Map of the British Isles

1939

Teasmade automatic tea-making machine

1932

LNER map

1923-1948

Strait jacket, Europe, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Goblin Timespot radio receiver with electric clock, 1947

1947

Crowd gives Hitler salute at the Nurburgring

1934

Daily Herald Photograph: Whale

1932-05-11

HMV portable record player

circa 1940

Clarkes Stove gas iron

circa 1935

Arab II 'Utility' bus

1943

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

V2 Rocket

1945

Lockheed 10A Electra, serial no 1037, 1935.

1935

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

1927

Technicolor cine camera

1930s

Stages of Vivex colour photography

1930s

Kodak Kodascope Model B 16mm projector

1928

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

1940

School children being evacuated from London

1938-09-28

The Jackson Girls

1933

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Replica of Pascal's calculator

1926

Peter Pan 'box camera' folding gramophone, 1924.

1924

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1930

1930

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

1940

No 37 Samsonia Model J Perfect Engineer's Vice

1929

All wood above knee prosthesis standard foot and ankle

circa 1930

'Szondi-Test', psychological test, Switzerland, 1947

1947

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

The Slums of Govan

1956-09

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy'

1933

Pye Model G Radio

1932

Portable electrocardiograph machine, Cambridge, England, 1928

1928

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

1940-1945

Wireless set no. 19 with ancillary equipment, 1942-1946

1942-1946

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

National Diesel Engine

1928