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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1945

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

King Edward's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Pritchards DDT Insect Spray.

Industrial Chemistry

1970

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1951

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Model of a male white baby at 22-23 weeks' development, England, 1998

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1998

Caesium atomic clock, 1955.

Time Measurement

1955

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Vessel for growing mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

Biotechnology

1940-1944

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

Triumph Palm Beach, gent's bicycle, 23" frame, 196

Road Transport

1964

Packet of 20 Capstan Navy Cut, Full Strength cigar

Smoking

1999

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Gaumont-Kalee GK21 35mm cinema projector

Cinematography

1948-1958

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1859-1939

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Philips TCD308 mobile telephone, 1997-2001

Telecommunications

1997-2001

Two bifurcated needles used for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1968

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

Electronic talking 'Lovable Bear'

Domestic Appliances

1999

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

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

Biotechnology

1945

Packet of 12? Gudang Garam 'International' kretek

Smoking

1999

'Super sex cap merpati' herbal capsules

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

c2010

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Arrow Spyce mountain bicycle, 1997

Road Transport

1997

Hoover 'Dustette' Vacuum Cleaner

Domestic Appliances

1964

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Aerial tuning inductor from the Rugby Radio Station, 1943-1966

Radio Communication

1943-1966

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Bottle of Fennings' Fever Mixture, England, 1950-1960

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1960

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907