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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tablet Stone, Moretonhampstead & South Devon Railway

1924

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Gecophone broadcast receiver, model B.C 3200, 1924

1924

Loud speaker valve type L.S.5. W/T, 1923

1923

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

1923

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Ceramic milk jug, London & North Eastern Railway

1924

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Radio Times volume 1 No. 1, 1923

1923

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Burndept Ultra IV wireless receiver, glass back No. 4798, 1923

1923

Savoy Hill 'Meat Safe' microphone stand

1923

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Thorpe 4-electrode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection) 1924

1924

Cosmos DE.11 general-purpose triode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1924

1924

Cossor Wurncell W.1 output triode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1923

1923

Bell from Cable Ship 'Faraday', 1923

1923

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Brochure describing Flying Scotsman given out at British Empire Exhibition

1924

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Clinical thermometer

1970-1900

Lindemann electrometer

1924

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

First valve amplifier set

1923

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

"Quantotar Addiator" calculator for addition and substraction of British Weights

1924

"Addiator" calculator with stylus and pencil

1924

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Ediswan crystal set, model 1924B, c. 1923

1923

Heterodyne wavemeter, made by Burndept Ltd, c.1923

1923

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Small stub-stemmed meerschaum tobacco pipe

1950-1900