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APEX Autonomous Drifting Profiler, or Argo float, 2010

2010

Sea-surface temperature bucket, Crawford type

1960-1970

Sodium-ion battery made by Faradion Limited

2022

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Powervault G100 Solar Storage Unit

2014

We Care Solar Suitcase

2017

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Vaisala RS92 radiosonde used in climate research

2010

Sample of Simulated Intermediate Level Waste by BNFL, 1990.

1990-1991

Electrolyser from the UK’s first hydrogen refuelling station

2014

Open scale barograph by Short & Mason Ltd.

1944

Whirling Psychrometer, 1950-1953

1950-1953

Assyrian terracotta brick

860-825 BCE

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Niobium battery by Nyobolt Ltd

2022

Graphite Electrode

2022

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Sectioned Metspec MET 20 Radiation Shield

2010

CS215 temperature and relative humidity sensor

2010

Standard Five-inch Rain Gauge

1940-1950

Earth thermometer with bent stem, c. 1925.

1925

Wet and dry bulb psychrometer for humidity measurement

1960-1970

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Meteorological Office aneroid barometer Mark I

1940

Sea temperature bucket, Met Ref 21580, 1997.

1997

Bio-brick grown from urine, University of Cape Town

2023

Tropical sunshine recorder Mk IIIA by Casella

1959

Portable thermometer screen

1925

Reeddi Capsule, solar powered portable battery

2021

Tidal Turbine Blade from Orbital Marine Power's SR2000 Turbine

2016

Section of Superconducting cable

2013

Dowsing 4-bulb electric fire by The Dowsing Radiant Heat Co. Ltd.

1901-1911

Ariel 3 type battery pack

About 1970

Islabikes Joni model bicycle designed for people with disproportionate dwarfism

2022

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Half section of the central solenoid from the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) nuclear fusion experiment, made by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at the Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, UK, 1999

Half section of the central solenoid from the MAST nuclear fusion experiment

1999