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Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

Radio Communication

1945-1955

Alcatel 'One Touch Easy' mobile telephone, 1998-2002

Telecommunications

1998-2002

Samsung microwave oven, 1990s

Domestic Appliances

1990-1998

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

NeXT cube computer, 1990

Temporary Exhibitions

1990

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Glass bottle of cocaine eye drops

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

'Build a Better Burger' game

Nutrition & Food Technology

1984-1986

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Medresco Portable Hearing Aid

Audiology

1953

Boyle-type anaesthetic machine

Anaesthesiology

1955-1965

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1520-1530

Hutchinson 'Rabbit' mobile telepoint telephone, 1993

Telecommunications

1993

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

Telecommunications

1925-1958

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Bosch 509e mobile telephone, 1999-2003

Telecommunications

1999-2003

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Pritchards DDT Insect Spray.

Industrial Chemistry

1970

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

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

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

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