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Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Contax S camera

1948

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Penguin book

1948

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Railway Collecting Dog: "Laddie"

1948

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Northrop loom

1947

Bottle of penicillin lozenges, England, 1949

1949

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

1990-95

Matisa tamping machine

1949

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

1947

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

1949

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

1947

'The new National Health Service' leaflet

1948

Keystone Model A-12 Cine Camera

1949

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

"Recordon" magnetic disc recorder by Thermionic Products, c. 1949

1949

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

1949-1977, audio equipment manufacturer, England

Ferrograph

1949 - 1977

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

Minute 16 camera

1949

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

1947

model epyptian state railways electric locomotive

1949

Hopper Feeder

1949

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

1947-1948

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Aneurin Bevan Visits the First NHS Patient

05 July 1948

Nude Study

circa 1949

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

1948-1977, goldsmiths, assayers and photographic chemists, Hendon

Johnsons of Hendon Limited

1948 - 1972

1947-1966, marine and aero navigation instrument designer; manufacturer, British

Kelvin and Hughes Limited

1947 - 1966

Medal, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society

1949

Butchart balance by W. B. Nicholson, Glasgow

1948

Sanborn Viso-Cardiette electrocardiograph

circa 1949

Photograph of Whitehall cleaners on protest in London, 1st February 1949

1949-02-01