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Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Yorkshire Main Sidings First Aid Box

1900-1920

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

1914-1924

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

1914-1924

Architect's drawing instruments

Box, pine, for rail transport of fishing rods

1935

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

1936

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Statue of the goddess Hygeia, Roman, 100 BCE - 100 CE

100 BCE-100 CE

Rocket locomotive

1829

Bunsen Burner for Iridis platinum apparatus

Bernal's (Reproduction) X-Ray Diffraction Camera, 1948-1952

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock รก Paris

1800-1899

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

1800-1899

Walferdin minimum thermometer

1800-1899

Diagrammatic model in wood of Holt's patent 1876 Auxiliary Steam Reversing Gear

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Adjustable crosshead, French, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Pilot balloon slide rule Mk IVA

1965

Book: Liber de Arte Distillandi de Compositis.

1512

Carrying case

1920

Whole block ship's stern model

1857-1858

Half-block model

1810-1830

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852

M.O. Bibby recorder Mark II

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Domestic hand brush of hazel twigs with pine handle and steel wire binding

1801-1900

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

1940-1945

eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona

1800-1818

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960

Portable thermometer screen

1945-1954

Pine wood box

1900-1930

Goblin Timespot radio receiver with electric clock, 1947

1947

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

1960-1970

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

1945-1955

Mining compass in engraved ivory case, Italian, 17th century

1601-1700

James Goddard type Cloud Mirror, 1862

1862

Wall mounted spice cabinet, Britain, 1875-85

1875-1885

Model of the four-bladed screw propeller from HMS 'Lord Warden' (1865)

1865-1870

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

1944-1945

Model of a small Hallstatt salt-boat

1900-1931

Wind tunnel model of Javelin aircraft

1950-1960

Radio transmitting set for radiosonde

1973

Green wood triangle, used in experiements on Alex the parrot

1990-1999