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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Ped-O-Jet Mass Inoculation Gun

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

Biochemistry

1953

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Cat-o-nine tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

Wellcome (general)

1700-1850

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Two bifurcated needles used for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1968

Napier's Bones

Mathematics

1690

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Nokia 1011 mobile telephone, 1992-1994

Telecommunications

1992-1994

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

Space Technology

2015

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

Philips 'Savvy' mobile telephone, 1999-2003

Telecommunications

1999-2003

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

Clockmakers

1953

Contraceptive Sponge

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1920-1960

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

Clockmakers

1770

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Apollo 10 command module, call sign 'Charlie Brown'

Space Technology

1969

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Blackboard covered with Graffiti

Stephen Hawking Office

1980

Packet of 20 Death cigarettes, London, England, 1999

Smoking

1999

Sokol space suit

Space Technology

1991

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Apollo 11, Lunar Module 'Eagle', 1969.

Space Technology

1963-1969

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Liquid-filled plastic lens television magnifier, 1935-1965

Radio Communication

1935-1965

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

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

Biotechnology

1945

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

Radio Communication

1945-1955

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

Smoking

1920-1950

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Prosthetic/artificial limbs for a nine year old child

Orthopaedics

1971

Meerschaum Tobacco Pipe with Bowl in form of Human Skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Six bifurcated needles for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1975-1978

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

'Jason I', de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth

Aeronautics

1928

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

Biotechnology

1990-1997

Boyle-type anaesthetic machine

Anaesthesiology

1955-1965