Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Penguin book

1948

Booklet. 'Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme'

1948

Roll of Honour for gallantry medal, London & North Eastern Railway

1947

Capacitor used in the development of the 'Baby' computer

1948

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Amateur radio call books, 1938 and 1951

1938 and 1951

London & North Eastern Railway gallantry medal

1947

Metal ship's plaque, Great Western Railway - St Patrick

1948

'The new National Health Service' leaflet

1948

Model railway wagon

1948

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Watson varifocal zoom lens model 75/6.7, 1948

1948

Two-valve radio receiver made on the ECME machine, 1947-1948

1947-1948

EM2/1 electron microscope

circa 1947

Northrop loom

1947

Pair of climbers for climbing telegraph poles

1948

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

1947

Report on a fact-finding trip leading to the development of the LEO computer, 1947

1947

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Kodak "Six-20 Brownie C" roll film box camera with original carrying case

1948

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

1730; 1967

Leather splint, for a dropped foot, 1947

1947

Home-made prosthesis for long below elbow stump

pre-1948

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

1972-3

HMV table-model auto radiogram model 1604, 1947

1947

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

2500 BCE

Several straight suture needles

1950-1920

McVitie Weston valve collection, Telefunken valve, type EF13

1948

McVitie Weston valve collection, Mullard valve, type TSP4

1948

McVitie Weston valve collection, Mullard valve, type TSP4

1948

McVitie Weston valve collection, Mullard valve, type TSP4

1948

Tattooing set consisting of fibre brush and wooden blade-handle

1970-1910

McVitie Weston valve collection, RCA Radiotron valve, type 810

1948

McVitie Weston valve collection, Hytron valve, type VR53

1947

McVitie Weston valve collection, RCA valve, type 1628

1948

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

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

1990-95

'Food and Nutrition' bulletins

1947

'Food and Nutrition' bulletins

1947

Tooth sponge, bone handle, 1865-1900

1965-1900

D'Arsonval Galvanometer no. 151668

1947

D'Arsonval galvanometer no. 151667

1947

Olivetti standard manual typewriter

1947

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Murphy three-band broadcast receiver, model A122, c. 1948

1948

R.F. Bridge

1948

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500