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'Radio Celebrities' cigarette card albums, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Hand painted Indian cotton fabric

Textile Industry

1700-1800

'Radio Celebrities Second Series' cigarette card album, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Official UK copy of the Bonn GSM mobile phone agreement, 1987

Telecommunications

1987

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Bottle of `Super Quink' permanent black ink, 1fl.o

Domestic Appliances

1940-1965

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

'Radio Celebrities' cigarette card album, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

Bottle of Waterman 88 Bleu Nuit ink

Domestic Appliances

c. 1950

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

African American soldiers court martialled at Paignton

Photographs

15 october 1943

Behind the scenes photograph from filming of 'Blanche Fury'

Photographs

1948

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

Dentistry

1795

TV for contented cows

Photographs

23 July 1961

Photoglyphic engraving of fern 'Adiantum capillus-veneris'

Photographs

c1858

Toy spacemen in Tokyo factory

Photographs

25 October 1961

Pen and ink sketch of the Marquis de Jouffry's steamboat, 'Pyroscaphe'

Marine Engines

1830

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

Art

1831

Bronowski Christmas Card 1956

Rita Bronowski

1956

'Siderius Nuncius Magna' and 'Dissertatis cum Sideris Nuncio'

Printed Books

1610-1611

A.L. Oliver, coloured porter at Victoria Station

Photographs

18 June 1961

Daily Herald contact sheet showing 'Mohinija' the baby rhino

Photographs

1958

Photograph taken during filming of 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'

Photographs

1963-10-03

Press view of the Festival of Britain Telecinema

Photographs

30 April 1951

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

Sebastien Le

c. 1711

Chinese Geomancer's compass

Navigation

1900-1942

H.G. Wells with William Cameron Menzies on set of 'Things to Come'

Photographs

1936

Thames TV blackout

Photographs

31 July 1968

Photograph showing slow loris holding a grooming toothbrush

Photographs

1955-11-21

Marie Curie in her laboratory, 1912

Photographs

1912

Imperial electric typewriter, about 1965

Printing & Writing

1962-1967

Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage

Art

1810

Manchester College of Technology Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Department printed calico cotton cloth apprentice piece

Textile Industry

1918-1950

Behind the scenes photograph from filming of 'Edward, My Son'

Photographs

1949

Henry the Bristol Zoo orangutan

Photographs

1950

Photograph contact sheet showing a baby lemur being fed by the Skirten family

Photographs

unknown

Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital

Photographs

06 July 1948

Pen and ink automatic writing on oval sheet of paper, by automaton

Motive Power

1825-1835

Magic lantern pose slide

Cinematography

1900-1920

Magic lantern pose slide

Cinematography

1900-1920

Magic lantern pose slide

Cinematography

1900-1920

Magic lantern pose slide

Cinematography

1900-1920

Poster for the film 'Pimple Collects the Rent'

Cinematography

1912

1950s television illustration

Photographs

18 November 1953

Brazilian commando undergoes torture test

Photographs

07 August 1969