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Discatron portable record player, 1966-1968

BBC Heritage Collection
Press photograph from the Daily Herald Archive

Daily Herald Archive
Monotype Corporation Collection

Monotype Corporation Collection
Stephen Hawking’s office with his desk, wheelchair and personal belongings

Stephen Hawking’s Office
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, vulcanite, in tin box

Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Kodak Collection

Kodak Collection
Pollock Pipe Collection

Pollock Pipe Collection
Book: 'The Horse in Motion: As Shown by Instantaneous

Jane and Howard Ricketts Collection
Arthur Frank Collection

Arthur Frank Collection
Lancashire Coal Mining Collection

Lancashire Coal Mining Collection
Silver gelatin print, by Andre de Dienes

Andor Kraszna Krausz Collection
Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection

Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection
Buckingham Movie Museum/John Burgoyne-Johnson Collection

Buckingham Movie Museum/John Burgoyne-Johnson Collection
National Archive of Railway Oral History

National Archive of Railway Oral History
Thames Collection

Thames Collection
Zoltan Glass Collection

Zoltan Glass Collection
Silver gelatin print by Tony Ray-Jones, 1967

Tony Ray-Jones Collection
SMG00122133

Silberrad Glassware Collection
SMG00107234

McLachlan Glassware Collection
A set of magic lantern life model slides

John Jones Collection
Feroze Sarosh Collection

Feroze Sarosh Collection
Sir Francis Layland-Barratt Collection

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt Collection
Metal clamp, 1 of 24, for chemical glassware, British

Ronald G. W. Norrish’s Laboratory
EMI Collection

EMI Collection

Themes from the collection

Anniversaries

Book by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

10 years ago

Book by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, gifted to Stephen Hawking

Made by The Dalai Lama; Tutu, Desmond, 2016
Pace DSL4000 IPTV set-top box with Remote Control

25 years ago

Pace DSL4000 IPTV set-top box with Remote Control

Made by Pace plc, 2001
Dextrostix reagent strips

50 years ago

Dextrostix reagent strips

Made by Ames (maker), 1976
Elm Street Mill Cross-Compound Steam Engine

100 years ago

Elm Street Mill Cross-Compound Steam Engine

Maker by Galloways Limited, 1926

Highlights

Hawking Building Grid

Hawking Building Grid
Artwork for the A Brief History of Stuff podcast

A Brief History of Stuff
Rotational photography

Rotational photography
The Babbage Papers

The Babbage Papers
Toys & games

Toys & games
Information Age

Information Age
Mathematics

Mathematics
Cinematography

Cinematography
Psychometric Tests

Psychometric Tests
Television

Television
Radiomedicine

Radiomedicine
Creative industries

Creative industries
Astronomy

Astronomy
Computing and Data processing

Computing and Data processing
Time measurement

Time measurement
Radio communication

Radio communication

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