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Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model Railway carriage; London & North Eastern Railway 1st class sleeper

1932

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

1931

Mink G goods van

1931

Mineral wagon used at Stanton Ironworks

1931

Eight-day astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Vickery

1931

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Ivory model of back-to-back skull and head

Before 1932

Bottle for medicinal water from Jacob's Well

1932

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Side dish

1931

Spa water from Aachen

1931

Pottery drug jar with parchment cover

Before 1932

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

Case model 'C' 35 hp tractor, 1931.

1931

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

"Q and I" detector, Edison and Swan

circa 1931

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

No 2A Folding Rainbow Hawk-Eye Model B camera

circa 1932

Great Western Railway Air Services

circa 1932

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

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

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

2000-1001 BCE

Norman Stokes' homemade Televisor, 1931

1931

Man falling off a motorcycle

circa 1932

Car in front of a house

circa 1932

Horch car in front of Modernist building

circa 1932

Mechanics work on Albert Divo's Bugatti

1932

The orange market outside the city walls

1940-03

Stoewer car driving down snow covered steps

circa 1932

Advertisement for a Mercedes Benz Type 170

1932

A driver at wheel of an Amilcar C6 racing car

1933-05

Car on a narrow mountain road

circa 1932