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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

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

1936

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1942

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

1935

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1945

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1955

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

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

1953

Ampoule of penicillin

1945

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

Bogie hopper wagon

1953

British Railways railway wagon

1950

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

United States Army Air Force camera

1940-1945

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Alarm whistle for use by psychiatric warders

1890-1914

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

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925