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Place of origin
Date

Ascot water heater

1933-1959

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Napier's Bones

1690

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Bath chair, United Kingdom, 1901-1920

1901-1920

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

1997

The Munition Girls

1918

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit

1969

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

1945-1955

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1945

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

1925-1935

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Oldest wristwatch with a co-axial escapement, by Patek Philippe and George Daniels

1901-2000

vacuum cleaner

1928

Radio Times volume 1 No. 1, 1923

1923

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Prototype Rover gas turbine motor car, JET 1

1946-1950

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Iron Baby

1999

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

The REFLECTION Acetabular Cup System

2006

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Caesium Atomic Clock, 1955.

1955

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Schimmelbusch mask

1890-1935

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

1860-1910

Medresco Portable Hearing Aid

1953

Tobacco pipe in the form of a bullock's head

1896-1920

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Mineral water bottle

1801-1900

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Portable "Spinney" transistor radio by Perdio Radio Co.

1965

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Molecular model showing the structure of insulin

1967