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Component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

Component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

2015
Component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

Component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

2015
Metal component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”, in two parts.

Component of Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

2015
REEM Service Robot, by PAL Robotics SL, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 2016

REEM Service Robot

2016
Animatronic baby, including servos and cantilevers, by John Nolan, Stoke Newington, London, England, 2016. The Science Museum commissioned John Nolan to produce the displayed Animatronic baby specially for the Science Museum: Robots 1 exhibition.

Animatronic baby

2016
Two instruction manuals for Nao V5 Evolution humanoid robot, by Aldebaran Robotics Paris, France, 2016

Two instruction manual for Nao V5 Evolution humanoid robot

2016
AC Mains and adaptor in a cardboard box for Nao V5 Evolution humanoid robot, by Aldebaran Robotics Paris, France, 2016

AC Mains and adaptor for Nao V5 Evolution humanoid robot

2016
Ring bound booklet containing A3 sized sheets relating to the vaccination programme in NHS Region South East, with pages containing list of NHS Trusts, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs), ambulance services, maps showing pharmacy vaccine sites, hospital hub vaccine sites, mass vaccination centres, care home locations, all vaccine sites and maps showing demographic data including deprivation, population density, vulnerability, BAME communities, political constituencies, LTLA (lower tier local authority) boundaries, STPs and CCGs (Clinical Commissioning Groups) boundaries, from the offices of NHS England at Skipton House, London, and associated with developing the strategy and monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme in England, 2020-2021.

Documents relating to COVID-19 vaccination programme in NHS South East

2021-03
Plastic folder containing A3 sized sheets relating to the vaccination programme in NHS Region South West, comprising paper cover and health service guide sheets and plastic map overlays giving information on Vaccination sites, Population density, BAME, Vulnerability and Deprivation, from the offices of NHS England at Skipton House, London, and associated with developing the strategy and monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme in England, 2020-2021

Documents relating to COVID-19 vaccination programme in NHS South West

2021-02
Plastic folder containing A3 sized sheets relating to the vaccination programme in NHS Region East, comprising paper cover and health service guide sheets and plastic map overlays giving information on Vaccination sites, Population density, BAME, Vulnerability and Deprivation, from the offices of NHS England at Skipton House, London, and associated with developing the strategy and monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme in England, 2020-2021.

Documents relating to COVID-19 vaccination programme in NHS East

2021-02
Ring bound booklet containing A3 sized sheets relating to the vaccination programme in NHS Region London, with pages containing list of NHS Trusts, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs), ambulance services, maps showing pharmacy vaccine sites, hospital hub vaccine sites, mass vaccination centres, care home locations, all vaccine sites and maps showing demographic data including deprivation, population density, vulnerability, BAME communities, political constituencies, LTLA (lower tier local authority) boundaries, STPs and CCGs (Clinical Commissioning Groups) boundaries, from the offices of NHS England at Skipton House, London, and associated with developing the strategy and monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme in England, 2020-2021.

Documents relating to COVID-19 vaccination programme in NHS London

2021-03
Brochure, paper, Making it up to you when things go wrong - Our 'Delay Repay' and 'Seat Guarantee' schemes, issued by Virgin Trains East Coast, 1 March 2015. One of the first brochures issued with VTEC branding when they took over the franchise from East Coast. Note that the brochure was actually published by East Coast and uses the same cover artwork as the previous East Coast refund leaflet. 5pp and claim form.

Making it up to you when things go wrong

2015-03
Brochure, paper, Passenger's Charter - Our commitment to providing you with a safe, high quality service on the East Coast Main Line, issued by Virgin Trains East Coast, 1 March 2015. One of the first brochures issued with VTEC branding when they took over the franchise from East Coast. Note that the brochure was actually published by East Coast. 31pp with network map on back cover and photograph of the new King's Cross concourse on the front.

Passenger's Charter

2015-03
Brochure, paper, The Red Report - Now arriving... A new future for all East Coast customers, issued by Virgin Trains East Coast, Jan. 2015. Brochures issued in advance of VTEC taking over the ECML franchise from East Coast. Contains VTEC's intended performance targets, details of new services, Nectar reward scheme etc. Also notes that 'ed Reports' will be issued every 6 months. Note that the brochure was actually published by East Coast. 155pp. Impression of planned new Hitachi train on the cover.

The Red Report - Now arriving... A new future for all East Coast customers

2015-01
Brochure, paper, Better Connected - Your Guide to Wi-Fi, issued by Virgin Trains East Coast, 1 March 2015. One of the first brochures issued with VTEC branding when they took over the franchise from East Coast. Note that the brochure was actually published by East Coast and uses the same cover artwork as the previous East Coast wifi brochure. 7pp and network map on the back.

Better Connected

2015-03
T-shirt, white cotton, large, with a printed image on the chest. The illustration, by cartoonist Steve Bell, is a parody of John Hassall's railway poster, 'Skegness is so bracing'. It features former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, prancing naked along a sandy beach, with the text "Freedom of Information is so bracing". Additional text reads "After John Hassall" and "© Steve Bell. 2014.5.12". A small label in the collar identifies the manufacturer as Rapanui.

Freedom of Information is so bracing

circa 2015
Sample of 2D crystal Mica, made by Manchester Nanomaterials Limited, Manchester, UK, 2015.

Mica

2015
Timetable, paper, Train times 14 December 2014 - 16 May 2015, issued by East Coast, December 2014. Includes information on food, connections etc. and East Coast's nine 'house rules'. Final timetable issued by East Coast before Virgin Trains East Coast took over the franchise in March 2015.

Train times 14 December 2014 - 16 May 2015

2014-12
Oral history interview with Alan Willis conducted and recorded by Alison Kay on 13 November 2014, at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 31 minutes. Alan Willis’ father was George Owen Willis (GW), born in Bromwich, Midlands in 1896, who was a train ambulance employee in World War 1. He worked on British trains only and not on trains on the continent. Alan Willis (AW) recounts the work of his father on ambulance trains. Childhood and family background of George Willis. How GW joined the war efforts in the ambulances, Royal Army Medical Core; photographs taken by GW; how GW recounted working on ambulance train to AW; work of GW on ambulance trains, how wounded were loaded on ambulance trains at Dover; relationships and socialisation with others on the ambulance trains; air raids impact on ambulance train, more risks in Dover; GW being promoted to Sargent; no death on board the train; how they dealt with infectious diseases, barrier nursing; shell shocked soldiers; medical orderlies on trains, nurses; how serious and less serious cases were placed on board of train; operations likely done on continental trains, not on UK ambulance trains; living on board the train; how GW met is future wife; after the war, GW career at health department Bournemouth, barrier nursing; whether GW kept in touch with people met on ambulance train, meeting Wilfred Owen; what AW remembers of a book of messages and drawings from ambulance trains patients and colleagues which has been lost

Alan Willis interviewed by Alison Kay

2014-11-13
Pump action sprayer unit, consiting of a white plastic body, marked with 'iK Multi 12' and images for use, 3 additional nozzles and 1 tube for spraying bleach solutions to de-contaminate those entering and leaving the 'red zone' areas, for neutralising infectious spillages and clearing up disease locations and treatment areas, as used by frontline health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Sprayer used to decontaminate areas duing the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

2014-2015
Oral history interview with Margaret Willmot conducted and recorded by Dr Jonathan Aylen on 8 December 2016. Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds. The interview focuses on Margaret Willmot’s experience as a junior programmer on TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) at British Rail. Start of railway career, TOPS (Total Operations Processing System), education, computing degree, job application; [00:03:23] British Rail induction, COBOL programming language, computing people vs railway people career approach; BR computer centres, machine types; work on TOPS at Blandford House, gender stereotypes, work on TOPSTRANS; [00:07:30] programming language in TOPSTRANS, assembler based macro language, how it worked, [00:14:23], computer core memory, data storage on magnetic tapes; TOPS customed built equipment, operating system; [00:18:30] disc drives vs tape drives, online vs offline processing; [00:20:00] TOPS wagons team, coding applications related to wagons, how coding was done, equipment used, punch cards, tele-type, team reaction to online machine, typing cards, programmers and typists, typing error example; [00:23:35] writing new enquiry for commodity code, modifying existing code, American code vs British Rail code, STANOX, TOPS Responsibility Areas (TRA), end of punch cards; [00:26:05] ventek cards 96 columns punch cards vs 80 column cards, no use of paper tape on TOPS; [00:29:51] enquiry for commodity code, security in TOPS; safety, preventative maintenance of wagons in TOPS, ‘cripples’ wagon; [00:32:20] TOPS wagon team, colleagues, organisation, way of working, hard coding, complexity of wagon movements in Scunthorpe area; [00:36:05] modification to original American TOPS for use by British Rail, example of obsolete codes for United Kingdom application; TOPS telecommunication, BR private phone lines; [00:41:10] British Rail choosing IBM over ICL; training on TOPSTRANS by Southern Pacific, relationship with Americans, helping with issues, BR staff visits to USA; interviewer discussing origin of TOPS; [00:46:20] example of computer crashing with application programme, technical issues and requirement, human errors rather than programme errors, example of issues with wagons, missing wagons, numbers painted on wagons; wagon audited against TOPS data; [00:55:00] working hours, office based work, junior position, reflections on experience on TOPS, camaraderie in TOPS team, TOPS experience useful in next job, if TOPS is still in use; date formatting in TOPS, space saving format; [00:59:30] leaving TOPS and British Railway, career after TOPS, San Francisco based computing company, revenue system for Eurotunnel; [01:01:00] further reflection on experience on TOPS [01:02:28] [end of interview]

Margaret Willmot interviewed by Jonathan Aylen

2016-12-08
Two flint drill Heads and Sandstone Block used for testing similar drills, found on the site of the Temple of Zoser Saqqara, c.3000 BCE

Sandstone blockhead

3000 BCE
Steel transport box trolley, for self-pitching three blade carbon fibre cyclic pitch propeller, prototype, designed and made by John Coxon, Pulborough, West Sussex, England, 2014. The propeller was designed to be fitted to small motor vessel Volvo-Penta stern drive units. Originally, the propeller was designed for aircraft.

Steel transport box trolley, for Self-Pitching Carbon Fibre Cyclic Pitch Propeller, prototype

2014
Faience Eye of Horus amulet, right eye, Egyptian, 4000 BCE-30 BCE

Eye of Horus amulet

4000-30 BCE
Stone amulet, heart, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Heart-shaped stone amulet, Egyptian

4000-30 BCE
Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE
Lapis lazuli amulet of Thoth, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Amulet representing the god Thoth

4000-30 BCE
Carnelian amulet, djed pillar, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Carnelian amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE
Animatronic baby, including servos and cantilevers; with ‘mac mini’ desktop computer; power control box; and switch mode power supply, by John Nolan, Stoke Newington, London, England, 2016. The Science Museum commissioned John Nolan to produce the displayed Animatronic baby specially for the Science Museum: Robots exhibition.

Animatronic baby

2016
YuMi dual-arm collaborative robot, created by ABB Robotics, Switzerland, c.2015

YuMi dual-arm collaborative robot

2016
Sample of early 2D crystal hexagonal boron nitride, made by Manchester Nanomaterials Limited, 2015.

Hexagonal boron nitride

2015
Wrapper, paper, Sweet! Virgin Trains East Coast, wrapper from free chocolate given out by VTEC when they took over the franchise from East Coast, March 2015.

Sweet!

2015-03
Iron age axehead, bronze Eastern Europe, Bronze Age.

Iron age axehead

3300-1200 BCE
An A5 leaflet regarding Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) improved services, ticket wallet, a small box of VTEC jelly beans and a VTEC 'Be Bound fr Glory' notelet pad

Virgin Trains PR material

December 2016
TransPennine Express Leaflets regarding the transfer of the TransPennine Express francise on the 1st April 2016.

TransPennine Express Leaflets

2016
Packet containing a pair of long white sterile latex gloves, HM Healthcare brand, as used by frontline health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Sterile latex gloves for frontline health workers

2014
A number of long white latex gloves carried within a white plastic container with a screw top, as used by frontline health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Several long white latex gloves in screw top container

circa 2014
Packet containing a pair of long white sterile nitrile gloves, Nitritex™ 'Profile PNHS' type, as used by frontline health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Sterile nitrile gloves, as used by frontline health workers

2014
Packet containing a pair of long white sterile latex gloves, HM Healthcare brand, as used by frontline health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Sterile latex gloves for frontline health workers

2014
Pair of skiing type goggles, used as protective equipment, for use by laboratory workers in the 'diagnostic tent' at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Pair of skiing type goggles, used as protective equipment by laboratory workers

circa 2014-15
Pair of post operative goggles, in original box, made by Theodore Hamblin Ltd., 15 Wigmore Street, London, England, 1940-1960.

Pair of post operative goggles

21940-1960
Jasper amulet, thet, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Thet (or tyet) amulet, Ancient Egyptian, 4000-30 BC.

4000-30 BCE
Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note).

Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian

3000-1000 BCE
Bones of human left foot, showing effects of osteoarthritis, said to be predynastic Egyptian, 4000-2001 BC

Human bones with osteoarthritis

4000-2001 BCE
Excavated neolithic skull, showing healed trephining and recovery from bad fracture, perhaps British, 3500-2001BC

Excavated neolithic skull

3500-2001 BCE
‘Mac Mini’ desktop computer, by Apple Inc, United States, American, 2016, for use with Animatronic baby, including servos and cantilevers, by John Nolan, Stoke Newington, London, England, 2016

‘Mac Mini’ desktop computer, for use with Animatronic baby, including servos and cantilevers

2016
A discharge certificate, to confirm that an individual has been through triage and tested negative for Ebola, sanctioned by the Sierra Leone government and used by health workers at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Discharge certificate, confirming triage and negative Ebola test

circa 2014-15
Colour leaflet explaining how Ebola is transmitted within communities, produced for use with the local population during the ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Colour leaflet explaining how Ebola is transmitted within communities

circa 2014-15
Three sheets of yellow sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers in the 'diagnostic tent' at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Yellow sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers

circa 2014-15
Colour leaflet explaining how ebola is transmitted within communities, produced for use with the local population during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Colour leaflet explaining how Ebola is transmitted

circa 2014-15