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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1900-1910

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Neveroil Roller Bearing axlebox for light railway truck

1930

Harwood self-winding wrist-watch of about 1930

circa 1930

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

model steam locomotive London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

1925

Commemorative key, Railwaymen's Club and Institute

1928

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Ivory model of back-to-back skull and head

Before 1932

Ivory model of a skull on wooden pedestal

before 1928

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

1914-1924

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

1914-1924

Switchboard for German military portable X-ray apparatus

1914-1918

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903