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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

1871

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

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

1953

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

'Build a Better Burger' Game

1984-1986

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

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

1936

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1942

Motorola 'GSM flare' mobile telephone, 1995

1995

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Nokia 1011 Mobile Telephone, 1992-1994

1992-1994

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

1935

Liquid-filled Plastic Lens Television Magnifier, 1935-1965

1935-1965

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

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

1945

Motorola tone pager, 1980-1990

1980-1990

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Working replica of Rocket

1979

British Railways Presflo cement wagon

1961

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

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

1853-1857

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

Datsun Cherry 100a (E10) four door saloon motor car made by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd

1974

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Locomotion

1973-1983

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Prototype British Railways 'Merry-go-Round' hopper coal wagon, 1964

1964

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

English Electric Company diesel electric locomotive 'Deltic' Co-Co 3300HP, 1955

1955

System X circuit board from digital switching subsystem, 1980

1980

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

1937-1960

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

1953

Replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

(1962); 1982

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Pinard type foetal stethoscope

1870-1920

'Clearblue' pregnancy test kit

1985