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Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Packet of 20 Death Cigarettes, London, England, 1999

1999

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

1871

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

1953

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Apollo 10 Command Module, Call Sign 'Charlie Brown'

1969

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

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1780-1850

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Packet of 20 Marlboro Lights

1999

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Mill Engine

1903

Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit

1969

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

The Munition Girls

1918

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Napier's Bones

1690

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

'Build a Better Burger' Game

1984-1986

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Technics SL-1210 Mk2 mode quartz synthesizer direct-drive turntable: one of two

1999

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

1963

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Richet-type forceps

1851-1900

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Section of a Boeing 747, 1973.

1973

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

1997