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

1872

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

Apollo 10 Command Module, Call Sign 'Charlie Brown'

1969

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

1871

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Collection of sexual aids in a wooden box, Japan, 1930-1939

1930-1939

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1935

DEC PDP-8 minicomputer, 1965.

1965

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

'Gynaeplaque' model, United States, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Early Child’s Car Safety Seat, Europe, 1958-1963

circa 1958-1963

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

Mill Engine

1903

Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

1963

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

The Munition Girls

1918

Caesium Atomic Clock, 1955.

1955

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Bottle of cod liver oil

1939-1955

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

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

1945

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917