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Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

AVRO Shackleton Centre of Gravity Computer

1950

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

1947

Standard five-inch rain gauge

1940-1950

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

First sealed-off travelling wave tube, 1945-1946

1945-1946

Transistorized audio-frequency telephone amplifier, 1955

1955

Radio valve, 1936-1939

1936-1939

Telephone operator's chair, 1930-1960

1930-1960

Transistorized audio-frequency telephone line amplifier, 1954

1954

232 telephone, 1934-1957

1934-1957

Post Office 332 telephone, 1938

1938

Telephone operator's chair, 1930-1960

1930-1960

Name plate from Leo I or II computer, 1951-1960

1951-1960

Transistorized audio-frequency telephone line amplifier, 1953

1953

Telephone operator's chair, 1930-1960

1930-1960

Split-seconds chronograph

1935

Portrait of Thomas Vickery (1882 – 1945) by unknown artist

1936

Early wristwatch by Smiths

1942

Insulin 8.25, Festival Pattern Group Rexine

1950-1951

Bottle of medicinal water from temple of Asklepios at Athens

1930

Pottery drug jar with parchment cover

Before 1932

Glass ampoules of penicillin

1944

Coil spring spectacles

1948-1960

Spa water from Aachen

1931

Wooden chest for transporting penicillin during WWII

1942-1945

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Marconi Mark II television camera head, 1951

1951

Murphy 14-inch Band I/Band III television receiver, 1954

1954

Model guard, North Staffordshire Railway

1957

Britannia model locomotive cab

1946-1956

London & Southampton Railway Policeman Model

1957

London Midland & Scottish Railway United Dairies milk wagon, 1937

1937

British Railways railway wagon

1950

London Midland & Scottish Railway steam locomotive 4-6-0 5MT class, No 5000, 1935

1935

4 Cor electric motor coach

1937

Arriflex 2C 35mm cine camera

1960

Photograph showing Indian actor Sabu riding an elephant at Coventry Zoo

1937-05-05

Bottle of Fennings' Fever Mixture, England, 1950-1960

1950-1960

Decorative neon lamp with filament in shape of 'ER' surmounted by a crown

1952-1953

Original laboratory sample of 'M and B 693', England, 1938

1938

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

1949

Passalong Test, London, England, 1937

1937

Advertisement for penicillin production from Life magazine, United States, August 14 1944

1944

Rigged model of a Foochow junk

1936

Agfa box camera

circa 1930

Children's Apperception Test, Australia, 1950

1950

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

1990-95

Rechargeable battery, 1945-1955

1945-1955