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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

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

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

1770

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Improved portable premature neonatal incubator by Oxygenaire

1964-1970

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1936

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

1853-1857

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

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

1935

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

1974

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

1780-1850

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

1976

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

1955

Apple 'iPhone 3G' smartphone, 2008-2010

2008-2010

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

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

1945

Molecular model showing the structure of insulin

1967

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

1978

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Eurostar 3000 satellite, 2000

2000

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Arriflex 2C 35mm cine camera

1960

Apollo 11, Lunar Module 'Eagle', 1969.

1976

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Steel seal die, Mersey Railway / Merey Pneumatic Railway

Scientific publication: 'The Boundary Conditions of the Universe'

1981-1982

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

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

1640

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

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

2010

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685