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Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

1963

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Silver gelatin print by Camera Press/L'Europeo. Printed Caption on verso reads: "U.S. Film Stars: ELIZABETH TAYLOR. Reports that scenes of Elizabeth Taylor in the nude were shot for the film 'Cleopatra' brought criticism from some quarters. This picture shows that such shots were made".

Elizabeth Taylor nude shot for "Cleopatra"

1963

British Railways Presflo cement wagon

1961

Knochenhauer spirals, 1963

1963

Replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

(1962); 1982

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Moulton Safari M3 bicycle

1962

RL-10 engine

1962

Cardiac pacemaker, London, England, 1961-1962

1961-1962

Kodak Instamatic 50 camera

1963

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1990-95

Sony 5-303W portable television receiver in carrying case

1962

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1961

'Do It Yourself' magazine

1962

Model of Bleriot's Monoplane No. XI

1962

LP Cliff Richard and the Shadows

1962

'Sunquest' Mean-Time Sundial, Designed by R. L. Schmoyer, 2001

1959 (designed); 2001(made)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bedford coach

1963

National Panasonic Super Sensitive 10 Transistor R-307

circa 1963

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

2050-1750 BCE
A wire photograph, taken by an unknown photographer for United Press International, 1963. The two photographs were released by Jim Garrison of New Orleans in support of his theory that a shot was fired from a sewer during the Kennedy assassination. One photograph shows the sewer opening on Elm Street, Dallas. The second was taken from the opening as a car passed by.

Two Photographs supporting theory that a Shot came from a Sewer during Kennedy Assassination

1963

Kodak Automatic 8 Movie Camera and carton box

1962

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Half set of gold electrodes

1962

BA type container

1962

Two sacks of money recovered from the Great Train Robbery

1963-08-11

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Hoover 'Keymatic' model 3224 washing machine, designed and developed by Hoover Limited engineering laboratories, Perivale, Middlesex, and made by Hoover (Washing Machines) Limited, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, with motors made at Hoover (Electric Motors) Limited, Cambuslang, Scotland, 1963

Hoover 'Keymatic' washing machine

1963

Ariel 'Leader' motorcycle

1963

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

2000-1001 BCE

British Rail Mark II model, sectioned

1963

Diesel-hydraulic locomotive, Western Fusilier

1963

Specimen of TAT3 cable, 1963

1963

Model of Euston Arch

1961

Penguin book

1963

LP original soundtrack recording `Lawrence of Arabia'

1963

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

The first orangutan to be born at London Zoo

1961

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972

Raleigh, Trent, lady's bicycle, 21" frame, 1962.

1962

Specimen of lightweight transatlantic telephone cable, 1961

1961

Circular slide rule to calculate nuclear bomb effects

1962

Elizabeth Taylor leaves the London Clinic

1963-01-23

Alpina mechanical calculator, with original box, instructions and stand

1961