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Model of a cobalt-60 source

1985

Photograph : The artificial transmutation of a nitrogen atom

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1918-1925

One Metre Section of Injector Tank For `Nimrod'

Four Photographs of American Atomic Bomb Test

1947; (1946-07-24)

Two photographs, taken with a deep expansion chamber, showing cosmic-ray tracks in oxygen

Electron diffraction patterns produced by G.P. Thomson, 1933-35

Two photographs, beta-ray from thorium C and alpha-ray from thorium C1

Pair of Helmholtz Coils to fit Teltron Fine Beam Tube, 1997

1997

Eight photographs showing the July 1945 New Mexico atomic bomb explosion test

1945-1947

Three specimens

Specimen of pitchblende. Also

Photograph, showing 63 million volt positron passing through a 6 mm lead plate

Model Particle Accelerator and Key

1938-1951

Model of hydrogen atom, c 1911

1911-1926

Back wound betatron magnet by British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., 1947

1947

Model of sodium atom, c 1911

1911-1926

Animated model of helium atom

1952

Model of lithium atom, showing Bohr orbits

External target for colliding with protons from the Nimrod particle accelerator, 1964-1978.

1964-1978

Fox-Smith prism component

1962-1972

laser

1973

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Solartron oscilloscope model CD568

1955-1961

Radioimmunoassay kit for anti-DNA

1981

Metal tube used to transport a sample of the Turin Shroud for radio carbon dating, 1988

1988

Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.

1991

Irradiation rig for the production of phosphorus 32, c. 1980.

1980

Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

1955

Scintillation counter

1955-1965

Copper foil with etched perforations at 20

1942-1943

Crookes radiometer tube by Griffin and George, Wem

1969

One lead "brick" for building screen walls round r

1960-1965

Replica of sensitive alpha-particle electroscope

5kV Lead with black insulation

1997

White T-shirt, blue printed design incorporating radioactive symbol and the word 'Non'

1995

Wound probe containing 2 small detectors

circa 1990

Experimental secondary emission tube

1945-48

Demountable synchotron gun

1950-78

Cathode ray tube gun

1960-78

Noise diode

1946

X-ray tube used in medical applications

1953-78

Electron multiplier designed by Dr van den Bosch

1945

Type PM 'Venetian Blind' dynode assembly

1948-78

Geiger-Muller tube

1949