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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

1936

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1949

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

1935

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

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

1942

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

1951

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

SR 'Winston Churchill' 4-6-2 Battle of Britain Class, No 34051

1946

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

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

1945

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Fertility amulet

1880-1925

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

British Railways railway wagon

1950

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Standard Morse key, 1880-1950

1880-1950

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1920-1950

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912