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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Ampoule of penicillin

1945

Carton of Araldite epoxy resin adhesive comprising cardboard box tube of hardner

1945

Wartime civilian receiver A.C.mains type, 1944-1945

1944-1945

Open scale barograph by Short & Mason Ltd.

1944

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Immesion suit blouse

circa 1945

Glass ampoules of penicillin

1944

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Flying Scotsman Australian tickets

1989-08

Royal Air Force 1938 Pattern Battledress blouse worn by 13553 Clement C Rutter when serving with 21 Group

circa 1945

Matrix Vertical Milling Machine used by Monotype Corporation

1945

Harry Sanders Archive

1944

letter from Graham Friese-Greene to T C Leaman

28 February 1945

'50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures, 1894-1944'

1944

RAF Tropical 1937 Pattern Shirt

1944

'ESO' chloroform apparatus, Oxford, England, 1945

1945

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Electric hygrometer element in sealed glass tube

1944

Working arm for a right above elbow amputation

1945

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Several straight suture needles

1950-1920

Specimen of sand melted by the explosion of the first test atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 1945

1945

Tattooing set consisting of fibre brush and wooden blade-handle

1970-1910

Cardboard carton

1944

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

Coil of thread

circa 1945

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

1990-95

'Food and Nutrition' bulletins

1945

'Food and Nutrition' bulletins

1945

Japanese Radar Transmit-Receive Cell

1944

Lead filled mallet

1945

Tooth sponge, bone handle, 1865-1900

1965-1900

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

William Heath Robinson's Paint box

before 1944

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Commemorative plaque, Spoorwegstaking (rail strike)

1945

Acoustics equipment

1945

Impulse dial with centre seconds

1945

Bestone Hammond B698 ornamental clock with three-valve radio, 1937, restored 1980

1937; 1980

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

1944-1945

Artificial Line type D-250-B

1945

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500