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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 Rifle (deactivated)

circa 1917

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Souvenir flag produced for World War One ambulance train

1917

Flying Scotsman Australian tickets

1989-08

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Barometer used during 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Balloon theodolite by E.R. Watts & Son

1917

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Mounted X-ray photograph by Mr C. Thurstan Holland and Dr. Oram

1917

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi WT Co Round valve, type T

1917

Tattooing set consisting of fibre brush and wooden blade-handle

1970-1910

McVitie Weston valve collection, Seddig triode valve

circa 1917

McVitie Weston valve collection, Siemens-Halske triode valve

circa 1917

McVitie Weston valve collection, Siemens-Halske triode valve

1917

Wade Bequest collection of valves: R4 triode radio valve

1917

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

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

1990-95

Silvertown resistance box No. 731 (1917)

1917

McVitie Weston valve collection, BTH valve, type R4

1917

Blue amberol phonograph recording cylinder

1917

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Tooth sponge, bone handle, 1865-1900

1965-1900

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Painting. Submarine sounding: Dover Patrol 1917. / Norman Wilkinson

1917

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram/GEC valve, type T.2.A

circa 1917

Dummy model of wireless battery of 1917

1917

Glass positive:- Large eruptive prominence

1916; 1929

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Photograph film positive 16" x 20"

1917

Mervyn O'Gorman

1917

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Wieland der Schmied

1917

Field induction telegraph set, 1917 model

1917

A photographic print of Films, "Bells Go Down"

1942-09