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Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

1926

Barber-Colman knotter

circa 1925

Power loom

1926

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1924

Addac adding machine

1926

Petrol locomotive

1925

model steam locomotive London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

1925

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

1925

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demonstration radio receiver

1926

model locomotive, London & North Western Railway

1925

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Replica of Pascal's calculator

1926

12"tenon saw by Spear & Jackson

1926

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Earth thermometer with bent stem, c. 1925.

1925

Portable thermometer screen

1925

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Experimental television receiver used by JL Baird in demonstration, made 1925-1926

1925-1926

Loaded submarine telegraph cable, 1926

1926

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

1934

No. I.T. Morse tape printer, 1925

1925

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Junior upright vacuum cleaner

circa 1930; 1920

Lawaczeck Turbine Runner, 1925

1925

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Linotype Model 50SM made by Linotype and Machinery Ltd

1926

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Electrola type 4A gramophone, c. 1925.

1925

Adapted Hailwood's type 01 miner's safety lamp

circa 1925

Tizer bottle

1925

Roger's Vitalator

1925

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2000-1001 BCE

Ferranti AF3 audio frequency transformer with a set of three coil formers

circa 1925

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931