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Category
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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)

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model steam locomotive 'Mallard'

circa 1939

Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

1940

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1938

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office

1938

Radio with Bakelite case

1940

Meteorological Office aneroid barometer Mark I

1940

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

1990-95

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

Post Office 332 telephone, 1938

1938

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

1940

Original cavity magnetron

1940

Princess Elizabeth

circa 1938

Rubber vault cap

1938-1940

Boy Scout Association Bronze Cross awarded to G F W Keen in 1940

1940

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Left split-hook prosthesic arm attachment

circa 1940

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Merlin 45 Aeroplane Engine

1941

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

George Medal Awarded to G F Keen

1940

Coronation Class Livery Sample

1938

Model locomotive, Deutsche Reichbahn

1938

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bartholomew's Railway Map of the British Isles

1939

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

General Arrangement for 4-6-2 Passenger Engine

1939-06-09

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

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

2000-1001 BCE

Secraphone secure telephone handset, about 1941

1940-1941

Paillard-Bolex H8 8mm cine camera

1938

model scammell mechanical horse

1938

Lincoln Cathedral plate

1938

Baby's gasmask of khaki green rubber with metal frame

1939

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Sylvester, coal mining jacking device

circa 1940

Marconiphone 706 television receiver

1938

Eileen Dunne

1940

Pablo Picasso at the Cafe de Flore

1939

Newall 35mm studio camera

circa 1940s

Box-type Delivery Tricycle

1938

School children being evacuated from London

1938-09-28