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Collection
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Place of origin
Date

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

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

1945

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Rocket locomotive

1829

Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Yorkshire Main Sidings First Aid Box

1900-1920

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

1914-1924

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

1914-1924

Box, pine, for rail transport of fishing rods

1935

Architect's drawing instruments

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Statue of the goddess Hygeia, Roman, 100 BCE - 100 CE

100 BCE-100 CE

Ancient Egyptian Altitude Sundial, or Shadow Clock, in pine (wood)

1000-800 BCE

Model of the four-bladed screw propeller from HMS 'Lord Warden' (1865)

1865-1870

Goblin Timespot radio receiver with electric clock, 1947

1947

Carrying case

1920

Wall mounted spice cabinet, Britain, 1875-85

1875-1885

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

1944-1945

Model of a small Hallstatt salt-boat

1900-1931

Domestic hand brush of hazel twigs with pine handle and steel wire binding

1801-1900

Bernal's (Reproduction) X-Ray Diffraction Camera, 1948-1952

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

Green wood triangle, used in experiements on Alex the parrot

1990-1999

Wartime Civilian Radio Receiver

1944

Wooden square

1990-1999

Piece of wood

1990-1999

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

1800-1899

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

1800-1899

Walferdin minimum thermometer

1800-1899

One handheld "mask" type stereoscopic viewer. Made of wood and lined in red velvet

1930-1970

Diagrammatic model in wood of Holt's patent 1876 Auxiliary Steam Reversing Gear

Book: Liber de Arte Distillandi de Compositis.

1512

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

1940-1945

eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona

1800-1818

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960

Portable thermometer screen

1945-1954

Pine wood box

1900-1930

Whole block ship's stern model

1857-1858

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

1960-1970

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

1945-1955

Bunsen Burner for Iridis platinum apparatus

Analytical Weights Set

1870-1920

Half-block model

1810-1830

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Mining compass in engraved ivory case, Italian, 17th century

1601-1700

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852