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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)

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Ampoule of penicillin

1945

Open scale barograph by Short & Mason Ltd.

1944

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

Wartime civilian receiver A.C.mains type, 1944-1945

1944-1945

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Immesion suit blouse

circa 1945

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Glass ampoules of penicillin

1944

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

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

1990-95

V2 Rocket

1945

Advertisement for penicillin production from Life magazine, United States, August 14 1944

1944

Images showing West Indian migrants arriving at London’s Waterloo station in May 1962

1962-05

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

1944-1945

Goldstein-Scheerer Test and components

1945

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Orange sucker

1945

Leather cycle bag

1945

Engine mount

1944

Clinical thermometer

1970-1900

Moving-coil d.c. milliammeter model 505 serial no.800624

1944

Copy of Justus von Liebig's Death Mask, 1873

1873 (original); 1990 (copy)

Grassot fluxmeter

1944

"0-2" Bench Micrometer

1944

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the 1974 catalogue

1970-1875

`Precisa' desk top calculator, c. 1945

1945

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Electron multiplier designed by Dr van den Bosch

1945

United States War Department Emergency Pass, 1945.

1945

Project Area Pass for the Alamogordo Test Site, New Mexico, 1945

1945

Operator's [Driving] License, 1945

1945

Model 0.1cc internal combustion engine

1945

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Fuel dipstick attached to filler cap

1944

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Glass tube of smallest balls made for ball-bearings

1945

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986