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'One Per Desk' microcomputer

1984; 1983

Small-scale model of an AVRO Lancaster aircraft

2007

Replica Arkwright water frame

1983

BBC B Micro Computer

circa 1983

Slotting machine

1835

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Model of Twin Cotton Mills

1950

Ceramic drinks bottle

1870-1910

Self Cleansing carbon filter

1861 - 1900

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Large cast iron cam from Pollard Street archaeological excavations of Peel, Williams & Peel Co. Soho foundry

1839-1887

Berry & Bentley Track Bicycle

1934

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Model of Stephenson's Rocket

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Capacitor used in the development of the 'Baby' computer

1948

Cathode ray tube

1956

Water Pipe

1890 - 1900

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Logic door from Ferranti Mark 1* computer

1955

70-70F mass spectrometer

1974

Replica of the 'Baby' or SSEM computer

1998

EM2/1 electron microscope

circa 1947

three gold-plated cable dies

1979

Bicycle from the Transport for Greater Manchester Bee Network bike hire scheme, 2021

2021

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

1947

Sample of concrete enhanced with graphene

2021

AVRO Shackleton Centre of Gravity Computer

1950

Spinning mule creel skewer

1850-1940

Spinning mule spindle

1830-1940

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Tape dispenser and Scotch sticky tape

2000-2004

Waters Acquity QDa mass spectrometer, about 2015.

Waters Acquity QDa mass spectrometer

2015

Hydrogen fuel cell

Hydrogen fuel cell

2014

Fujitsu Siemens Scenic eD PIII PC, with accompanying monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Computer

2000

Glass rods used on winding and doubling machines.

Textile Machinery Rods

Calorimeter used by James Joule for the more accurate determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat, c.1860.

Calorimeter used by James Joule for the more accurate determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat

c1860

Jet engine turbine blade sample tested on Beamline 2.3 at Daresbury Laboratory.

Jet engine turbine blade sample tested on Beamline 2.3 at Daresbury Laboratory

1980-2015