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Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

1976

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

English Electric Company diesel electric locomotive 'Deltic' Co-Co 3300HP, 1955

1955

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Datsun Cherry 100a (E10) four door saloon motor car made by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd

1974

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Prototype for the 'Anniversary' wristwatch by George Daniels and Roger Smith

2010

Surgeon console, from da Vinci® Classic surgical system

1999-2001

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

Niobium battery by Nyobolt Ltd

2022

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Model of the 1922 Shukhov radio tower

2014

Astronomical longcase clock with a planetarium by Roland Jarvis

1982

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

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

1945

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Eurostar TMST power car 373 308

1996

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Rocket locomotive

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Steel seal die, Mersey Railway / Merey Pneumatic Railway

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Scientific publication: 'The Boundary Conditions of the Universe'

1981-1982

Apple 'iPhone 3G' smartphone, 2008-2010

2008-2010

Roadside advertising board for mobile telephone repair shop, 2012

2012

OALC4 DA fibre optic submarine cable, 1999

1999

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800