worlds oldest valentine card

The history of Valentine day is not years old but years-over-years old. I came across this 1790 valentine card; seemingly oldest that happens to be the world’s most expensive valentine card ever. It is being said that the sketch of this Valentine card disclosed by the Royal Mail was expected to generate a sale up £4,000, if sold.

world oldest warship

world's oldest warship, in service since 1765! The only surviving "First Rate" wooden battleship in the world, HMS Victory was Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar back in 1805, and is still on duty in the Royal Navy today

World's oldest running shoes

The world's oldest running shoes are back on display at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

World's Oldest Football

A 450-year-old football, made from a pig's bladder and pieces of leather, laced together and found in the rafters of Stirling Castle a few years ago, is going to an exhibition in Hamburg in Germany

world's oldest watch

oldest watch.. that in the cathedral. nearly8 00 years old..david explaining the mechanism

World's oldest computer?

This 2,000 year old clock-like device might be one of the oldest "computers" - "It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from antiquity, writes Helena Smith. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets.

World's oldest functional vacuum cleaner

A 78-year-old man in Scotland claims to have (and use) the world's oldest vacuum cleaner, a wonderfully named "Goblin Triumph" his mum bought from a door-to-door salesman in 1936.'My Goblin is still used regularly about the house and has never stopped working since the day my mother bought it.'
Mr Cameron's superb collection of ancient gadgets was first featured six years ago when the pensioner was a familiar sight in his blue 16-year-old Reliant Robin around the streets of his native Paisley.
Then, he said: 'The Goblin is a very simple design. It is a motor and a fan with a cardboard tube attached.
'There is little to go wrong with the cleaner, so there is very little reason why it should not go on working forever. It will probably outlive me.'

the World’s Oldest Tabasco Bottle

WORLD OLDEST CONDOM

The world's oldest condom is one of the highlights of the exhibition.
found in: Photo Gallery: 100000 Years of Sex - SPIEGEL ONLINE - NewsA new exhibition in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann explores the fascinating history of "100000 Years of Sex."

The world's oldest Rolls Royce car

After yesterday's news that 2 billion people now use GSM mobile phones, it seems timely to look back at the history of GSM and see what the first generation looked like.
Back in 1991, the Motorola 1000 'Autotelefon' was the digital phone of choice.
Called a 'transportable', because, well, you couldn't get away with calling it 'mobile', the Motorola 1000 is bigger than most of today's base stations!
More surprising, and a real testament to the success of the original GSM specification, the Motorola 1000 will still work, unchanged, on today's vastly-different GSM networks.