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Making The Modern World Gallery

Spanning 250 years of science and technology, the iconic objects on display in Making the Modern World have helped to shape the world we see today.

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Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Cat-o-nine tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

Wellcome (general)

1700-1850

Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

Biochemistry

1953

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Packet of 20 Death cigarettes, London, England, 1999

Smoking

1999

Apollo 10 command module, call sign 'Charlie Brown'

Space Technology

1969

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

Biotechnology

1990-1997

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

'Form M Revised Stanford-Binet Scales', IQ test, United States, 1937

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937-1960

Samsung microwave oven, 1990s

Domestic Appliances

1990-1998

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Model of a male white baby at 22-23 weeks' development, England, 1998

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1998

Caesium atomic clock, 1955.

Time Measurement

1955

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Electronic talking 'Lovable Bear'

Domestic Appliances

1999

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Clear green glass bottle for Mellin's Infant Food, United Kingdom, 1866-1950

Medical Glass-ware

1866-1950

Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit (21-7-69). First moon l

Space Technology

1969

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Packet of 20 Marlboro Lights, Filter Cigarettes, k

Smoking

1999

Alexander Performance Scale Test kit, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946-1950

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1946-1950

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Technics SL-1210 Mk2 mode quartz synthesizer direct-drive turntable

Sound Reproduction

1999

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Artificial heart from The Jarvik Aritifical Heart System

Surgery

1975-1985

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Metropolitan Police equipment belt

Public Health & Hygiene

1995-1999

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

First atomic force microscope, United States, 1985

Microscopes

1985

Packet of 20 Silk Cut Super Low cigarettes, king s

Smoking

1999

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

Photographic Technology

1935

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

Telecommunications

1997

V2 Rocket, A4 missile

Space Technology

1945