Contraceptive Sponge
1920-1960
'Prorace' cervical cap
1915-1925
Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model
1872
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin
1986
Frame saw
1700-1800
Necklace worn to ward off the Evil Eye
1880-1930
Cup and ball toy
1750-1800
Anatomical model of the spine
1901
Specimen jar containing gosypium herbaceum
1830-1900
Plaster five-part arm mould
1790-1819
Packet, tied to wood lid, addressed “James Watt, Harper hill
1790-1819
Three casts tied together
1790-1819
Two small pieces of wood, tied to string
1790-1819
Newspaper packet, with label reading 'Blue'
1790-1819
Paper packet, labelled 'Blue Stone'
1790-1819
Section of plaster mould, tied with string
1790-1819
Bundle of red cloth wrapped in paper labelled
1790-1819
Bent copper tubing, with broken piece of cork attached by string
1790-1819
One piece of string
1790-1819
Equal-arm balance
1562-1566
Kodak No 1 Camera
circa 1891
Paper packet of Manganese, tied with string
1790-1819
Kodak No 1 Camera
circa 1891
First atomic force microscope, United States, 1985
1985
Contraceptive sponge, United Kingdom, 1901-1930
1901-1930
Electrogalvanic amulet
1880-1900
'Progress' toy gyroscope, 1950-1960
1950-1960
Model of a Printing Press, 1701-1800
1701-1800; 1982
Stephenson Family Recipe Book
? 1820-1849
Necklace, belonging to witch doctor
1890-1932
Set of Chemicals for Wet-Plate Process
1854
Wooden pocket sundial for use at various latitudes
1776-1800
Korean pocket compass and sundial
1780-1880
Wharfedale Stop-Cylinder Printing Press, 1865-1875
1870
Necklace of snake vertebrae, Europe, 1871-1916
1871-1916
Leather bag with objects for divination, Africa, 1880-1930
1880-1930
Bone-conduction type hearing aid, c1850-1900
1850-1900
Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels
1988 (model); 1752 (original)
Scientific bet on Cygnus X-1 containing a black hole
1974
Heart shaped basket made entirely from cloves
before 1907
Framed photograph of Stephen Hawking with philanthropist Dennis Avery
1998-2005
Hyperbolic paraboloid string surface model
1872
Steelyard, the so-called opium scales in violin-shaped case
1880-1920
Conoid surface model
1872
Signed group photograph from the 1980 Nuffield Supergravity Workshop
1980
Photograph from Little Britain sketch with Stephen Hawking and David Walliams
2015
Contraceptive tampon, United Kingdom, 1920-1960
1920-1960
Davy lamp, made 1820
1820
Caldwell automatic microtome, Cambridge, England, 1884
1884