Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

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

V2 Rocket

1945

Lockheed 10A Electra, serial no 1037, 1935.

1935

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

1927

Technicolor cine camera

1930s

Stages of Vivex colour photography

1930s

Kodak Kodascope Model B 16mm projector

1928

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

1940

School children being evacuated from London

1938-09-28

The Jackson Girls

1933

Shirley Levitt

circa 1950s

Woman in a patchwork skirt

circa 1955

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Replica of Pascal's calculator

1926

Peter Pan 'box camera' folding gramophone, 1924.

1924

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1930

1930

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

1940

Pye 'Black Box' record player, introduced 1954.

1954

No 37 Samsonia Model J Perfect Engineer's Vice

1929

All wood above knee prosthesis standard foot and ankle

circa 1930

Toilet paper, 'Bronco' brand, London, England, 1935-1950

1935-1950

'Szondi-Test', psychological test, Switzerland, 1947

1947

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

The Slums of Govan

1956-09

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy'

1933

Pye Model G Radio

1932

Portable electrocardiograph machine, Cambridge, England, 1928

1928

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

1940-1945

The Flying Scotsman menu

circa 1955

Wireless set no. 19 with ancillary equipment, 1942-1946

1942-1946

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Midwifery bag and contents

1925-1955

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

2000-1001 BCE

National Diesel Engine

1928

Goldstein-Scheerer Test and components

1945

Rolls-Royce Griffon Aero Engine

1942-1945

Moviola Film Editor

circa 1932

Westrex 35mm Sound and Film Editing Machine

1930s

Used ration book and two ration book supplements, England, 1939-1941

1939-1941

Poster to recruit blood donors during the Second World War

1943

Take me by the Flying Scotsman

1932

I'm Taking an Early Holiday Cos I Know Summer Comes Soonest in the South

1936

East Coast by LNER

1932

Templates from Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

1953

Tree height measurer, British, 1945-1948

1945-1948

WAIS (Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale) test in b

1955

'Vaporole' smelling salts, London, England, 1924-1940

1924-1940

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

1925

Kodak Retinette Camera

1950-1955