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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

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

1872

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1953

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

1880-1940

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

The Munition Girls

1918

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

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

1935

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

1871

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

1925-1958

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Helmet, Great Western Railway, Fireman

1912

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Bragg X-ray spectrometer, England, 1910-1926

1910-1926

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

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

1949

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Artifcial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

circa 1956-1959

'Paragon' Reusable Rubber Condom, London, England, 1948-1950

1948-1950