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Place
Material
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The Munition Girls

1918

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Victory medal - G F W Keen

1918

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Handcuffs, steel

1918

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 Rifle (deactivated)

circa 1917

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Akeley cine camera

1917

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Gas Alert Rattle, England, 1917

1917

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Ediswan carbon filament light bulb

circa 1919

Blood transfusion apparatus believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertson

1917-1918

The orange market outside the city walls

1940-03

A driver at wheel of an Amilcar C6 racing car

1933-05