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Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Ascot water heater

1933-1959

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Kodak Instamatic 50 camera

1963

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Baudot five key keyboard, 1897-1926

1897-1926

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Bath chair, United Kingdom, 1901-1920

1901-1920

Mill Engine

1903

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

The Munition Girls

1918

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

1880-1940

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

1963

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1945

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Reid III Rangefinder Camera

circa 1956