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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barber-Colman knotter.

circa 1925

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

The Munition Girls

1918

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1935

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, London, England, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1935

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

1935

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Petrol locomotive

1925

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

The Ardente Hearing aid, London, England, 1920-1930

1920-1930

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Spinning Mule

1927

Portable paraffin cooking stove

1930-1935

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

1909-1910

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Experimental television receiver used by JL Baird in demonstration, made 1925-1926

1925-1926

Liston-type Amputation Knife, London, England, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

1921

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Roger's Vitalator

1925

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Post mortem table ceramic

1921-1930

Lockheed 10A Electra, serial no 1037, 1935.

1935

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

'Gynaeplaque' model, United States, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Kodak Retina (Type 117)

1934-1935