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Collection
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Place of origin
Date

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica Arkwright water frame

1983

Box of blood grouping sera

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

2014

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

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

1909-1910

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Cervical cap, ‘Improved Gem’ type

1930-1960

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

British Airways t-shirt

Pathfinder flying boot

circa 1932

Pre-production model of a Howden HWP 300 Wind Turbine and Landrover

1980-1983

'P & K' artificial left arm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1920-1925

1920-1925

Pair of RAF aircrew flying boots, 1944

Barbie Doll, 'Black Ken'

1980-1990

Claude Lorrain mirror

Cotton comber web (Nasmith Comber)

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Silver medal

1937

Cotton card sliver

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular

Duckham's Oils overalls used by David Cook

1978

'Smith-Clarke Senior' adult cabinet 'Iron Lung'

1953

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

1872

Conoid in contact with a hyperbolic paraboloid, surface string model

1872

Volume of dye shade cards

1865-1925

Pair of artificial/prosthetic legs for a teenage boy living with thalidomide impairments

1975

Hyperboloid and Asymptotic Cone, surface string model

1872

Sample of Terylene

1940-1947

Salvarsan kit

1909-1912

Flying shuttle

1920-1960

Flying shuttle

1920-1960

Flying shuttle

1920-1960

Flying shuttle

1920-1960