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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)

Model Railway carriage; London & North Eastern Railway 1st class sleeper

1932

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Mink G goods van

1931

Mineral wagon used at Stanton Ironworks

1931

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Eight-day astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Vickery

1931

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Ivory model of back-to-back skull and head

Before 1932

Bottle for medicinal water from Jacob's Well

1932

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Side dish

1931

Spa water from Aachen

1931

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Pottery drug jar with parchment cover

Before 1932

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

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

1990-95

Case model 'C' 35 hp tractor, 1931.

1931

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

"Q and I" detector, Edison and Swan

circa 1931

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

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2000-1001 BCE

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

Norman Stokes' homemade Televisor, 1931

1931

No 2A Folding Rainbow Hawk-Eye Model B camera

circa 1932

Great Western Railway Air Services

circa 1932

George Robey making a promotional film

1932-02-25

Usherette

1932-08-03

Little girl with a packet of cigarettes

1932-10-11

Man falling off a motorcycle

circa 1932

Car in front of a house

circa 1932

Interior of Boots chemist, Regent Street

1932-12-08

Horch car in front of Modernist building

circa 1932

Woman sitting under a hairdryer

1932-09-20

Standing outside a gramophone shop

1932-08-19