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

1945

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

SR 'Winston Churchill' 4-6-2 Battle of Britain Class, No 34051

1946

Contax S camera

1948

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Pye B16T television receiver

1946-1948

Penguin book

1948

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Railway Collecting Dog: "Laddie"

1948

Ampoule of penicillin

1945

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Northrop loom

1947

V2 Rocket

1945

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

1990-95

Penguin book

1946

Hospital bed cycle

1946

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

1947

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

1944

active 1944-1954, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, London, England

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954

Ekco AD75 radio receiver, 1946

1946

Carton of Araldite epoxy resin adhesive comprising cardboard box tube of hardner

1945

Goldstein-Scheerer Test and components

1945

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

1947

EC 111 lighthouse lamp

circa 1945

'The new National Health Service' leaflet

1948

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

active 1948-1969, optical instrument maker (spectroscopes etc.), London, England

Hilger and Watts Limited

1948 - 1969

Lockheed 749 Constellation, built in September, 1947.

1947

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Mobile X-ray vehicle, England, 1948

1948

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

2050-1750 BCE

Capacitor used in the development of the 'Baby' computer

1948

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Design drawings for the compressor unit of the Prestcold Packaway refrigerator made by Bedrich Pollak

1945-1948

Immesion suit blouse

circa 1945

Glass ampoules of penicillin

1944

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

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

2000-1001 BCE

Booklet. 'Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme'

1948

List of ward items from a psychiatric hospital, Kent, England, 1945-1951

1945

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

1947

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

End plate assembly for a battery of mercury delay tubes from EDSAC 1, 1946-1958

1946-1948

Two-valve radio receiver made on the ECME machine, 1947-1948

1947-1948

Biro ballpoint pen

1945-1948

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984