Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Penguin book

1948

Penguin book

1946

'Six-Five Special !"

1957

Bryant & May's book matches 'Over 100 Years of Good Matches'

circa 1960

Quinine pills in box

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Thalomid (thalidomide) capsules

1999

Penguin book

1963

Book, entitled 'The Impregnable Women'

1959

LP `Mister Rock `N' Roll'

1969

The Spotniks

1963

LP Dave Clark Five `Catch Us If You Can'

1965

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Six lancets in a tortoiseshell case

1701-1900

Tropical sunshine recorder Mk IIIA by Casella

1959

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Churchman's No.1 Special' cigarettes manufactured by W A and A C Churchman Limited

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Havana Blend' cigarettes manufactured by B Morris and Sons Limited

1920-1950

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Two sheets of photographs of the sun taken with a Dallmeyer photo-heliograph

1870-1875

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

Dalek

circa 1966

'Numbers in Colour' set, a mathematical teaching aid

1964

Camera Obscura Models by John Hammond, 1990-95

1990-1995

'Adaptopruf' waterproof adhesive plaster box containing a mixture of 10 plasters

circa 1950s

Box of crushable chloroform capsules

Watercolour illustration by Peter Nairn showing bloodshot right eye

1896

Packet of 9 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Navy Cut Tobacco

1920-1950

Packing identification labels

circa 1950

Book of Papers and Addresses, presented to Sir Henry Wellcome

1920-1923

1999 eclipse viewer

1999

Sample book containing skeins of viscose yarn

1900-1935

Uniform polyhedra card model illustrating a non convex antiprism

2001-2002

Case of trial lenses

1880-1920

Set of Traverse tables by R.L. Gurden used in the University of Edinburgh

1888

Ready reckoner 'Prompt' calculator, 19th century.

circa 1863

'Progress' toy gyroscope, 1950-1960

1950-1960

'Junior Vitachieve' minerals and vitamins, England, 1991

1991

100ml glass bottle of Valium 2 syrup (diazepam) in original carton. 125 mm x 45 mm diameter

1974-1982

Member's Ticket, BAAS

1850

Two lenses in circular box

Drawer containing two labels and two lengths of string

Slide rule for ferro-concrete calculations

1973

Set of 46 stereoscopic cards illustrating crystallography

1876