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Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

Time Measurement

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Diana Dors

Photographs

1958-07-07

Hamilton Electric Wrist- Watch, 1957

Time Measurement

1957

Katharometer, designed by W.Stuve, c. 1957

Experimental Chemistry

1957
Replica Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, 1957

Sputnik 1 satellite, 1957.

Space Technology

1957

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Child's seaside rubber bucket and spade

Domestic Appliances

c. 1957

E.M.I. model I/ 2 professional reel-to-reel tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1958

Plaster of paris relief plaque of Galen of Pergamon

Wellcome (general)

1958

Kenwood 'Chef' food mixer and

Domestic Appliances

c1957

Progress 1957

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1957

Sunbeam Shavemaster foil type electric razor, circ

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1958

Bronowski Christmas Card 1957

Rita Bronowski

1957

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Punch and Judy theatre, Liverpool

Photographs

1957

Transverse Axial Tomographic Unit, Italy, 1957

Radiomedicine

1957

Kitten splashing in a saucer of milk

Photographs

1958-07-03

A pair of articulated lower limb prostheses suppli

Orthopaedics

1957

Analytical balance, single-pan, made by Sartorius-

Experimental Chemistry

1957

Typist wearing flu mask

Photographs

24 September 1957

Saja tape recorder, by Sander & Jantzen, made in B

Sound Reproduction

1957

Capacitance bridge type A-168-A, no. 314034, by Muirhead & Co. Ltd.

Telecommunications

1958
Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957

Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957

Space Technology

1957
Model of the Harwell controlled Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (ZETA), scale 1:24, by Miniature Engineering (London) Ltd., London, SW1, 1958. With perspex shade made in Museum workshops. On 24 January 1958, UKAEA scientists claimed that thermonuclear fusion had been achieved in the ZETA experimental fusion reactor but these claims were later withdrawn. (Note: ZETA is sometimes incorrectly expanded as Zero Energy Thermal Apparatus). (Controlled fusion of atoms)

Model of ZETA nuclear fusion device, 1954-1958.

Nuclear Energy

1958

Kenwood 'Chef' food mixer and

Domestic Appliances

c1957

Bournemouth for Winter Warmth

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1957

Boxer Sandy Manuel as Father Christmas

Photographs

1958-12-04

Ceramic Ernie money box

Computing & Data Processing

1957

Star finder and identifier: 10 transparent templat

Astronomy

1958

'Fialka' Cipher machine (10 rotor) with Cyrillic (Russian) characters

Mathematics

after 1958

Electric clothes dryer, made b

Domestic Appliances

c.1958

Teletypewriter made by Creed & Co. from the Pegasus Mark I Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1957

Stereotype Plates of Pages from Times Newspaper, 1958

Printing & Writing

1958

Ferranti electric fire.

Domestic Appliances

1957

Woman in a knitted jumper

Photographs

c. 1957

Woman with sledge

Photographs

c. 1957

Woman watches as a band marches past

Photographs

1957

Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island

Photographs

1958-01-21

Kitten Splashing in a Saucer of Milk

Photographs

1958-07-03

Kenwood 'Chef' food mixer and

Domestic Appliances

c1957

Kenwood 'Chef' food mixer and

Domestic Appliances

c1957

"Gramdeck" tape deck and control unit, 1957

Sound Reproduction

1957

Jacket, British Railways - Passenger Guard

Railway Uniform & Costume

1958

Matrix monocular optical depth testing instrument

Printing & Writing

1957

Celliton, Cellitonecht, Cellitazol, BASF, 1958

Industrial Chemistry

1958

Betty Loakes wins 800 metres heat

Photographs

22 August 1958
Headboard, British Railways (Eastern Region), "The Fair Maid", polished letters on navy blue background, between London Kings Cross, Edinburgh Waverley and Perth, an extension and renaming of "Morning Talisman" from 1957.

headboard - the fair maid

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1957

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Elliott G-PAC analogue computer, with operational amplifiers

Computing & Data Processing

1957