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Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Thunberg tube

Thunberg tube

Specimen bottle for blood for a test for syphilis, England, 1930-1950

Specimen bottle for blood for a test for syphilis, England, 1930-1950

1930-1950

Wooden test tube block with tubes used for DNA sequencing, Europe, 1960-1977

Wooden test tube block with tubes used for DNA sequencing, Europe, 1960-1977

1960-1977

Test tube with graduation mark

Test tube with graduation mark

Bacteriological preparations from the Pasteur Institute, France, 1888-1985

Bacteriological preparations from the Pasteur Institute, France, 1888-1985

1888-1985

Test tubes used at the Common Cold Research Unit, England, c. 1956

Test tubes used at the Common Cold Research Unit, England, c. 1956

1956

Set of six test tubes used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

Set of six test tubes used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

1875-1878

Test tube preparations for Simplified Culture System

Test tube preparations for Simplified Culture System

2017

Glass 'test' tube, with a rubber pipe fitting at one end, from Dennstedt's electric combustion furnace

Glass 'test' tube, with a rubber pipe fitting at one end, from Dennstedt's electric combustion furnace

Test tube

Test tube

Test tube with arm

Test tube with arm

Test tube with constriction about one quarter-length from the opening

Test tube with constriction about one quarter-length from the opening

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

1875-1878

Test tube

Test tube

Glass test tube

Glass test tube

Test tube with narrowed section in neck

Test tube with narrowed section in neck

Test tube

Test tube

Test tube set

Test tube set

1901-1940

Four glass test tubes c.1950's

Four glass test tubes c.1950's

c. 1950

Glass tube

Glass tube

Test-tube, and 0.5ml pipette dropper

Test-tube, and 0.5ml pipette dropper

1946-1956

Test-tube, and 0.1ml pipette dropper

Test-tube, and 0.1ml pipette dropper

1946-1956

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube with broken base

Test tube with broken base

broken elements of a test tube

broken elements of a test tube

c. 1950

Pyrex ® test-tube, and 0.4ml pipette dropper

Pyrex ® test-tube, and 0.4ml pipette dropper

1946-1956

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Test tube, unknown maker

Glass test tube with rubber teat and glass and cotton wool from smallpox diagnosis kit for collecting samples from suspected British cases of smallpox, for identification at the Central Public Health Laboratory, 1970-1979

Test tube from smallpox diagnosis kit

1970-1979

Test tube part of clinitest urine testing kit by Ames

Test tube from urine testing kit

Test tube part of clinitest urine testing kit by Ames

Test tube from urine testing kit

7 glass test tubes, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, by Monax, Scotland, 1930-1940

7 glass test tubes

1930-1940

Test tube, Pyrex rimmed test tube, made by James A Jobling & Co Ltd., Sunderland, England, 1922-1975. The object bears a circular white trademark marked "PYREX" in with "MADE IN ENGLAND" surrounding and "JP" above and below PYREX.

Pyrex rimmed test tube

1922-1975

Two pipettes, four test tubes and tube stand, unsigned, British, 1950-1953 (see Note). Equipment of the type used by Marguerite S. Pereira et al. in 1953, in the explant method of tissue culture to grow a cold virus at the Common Cold Research Unit, Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, Wiltshire, England.

Two pipettes, four tubes and tube stand, used in tissue culture explant method

1950-1953

Three glass test tubes for wood borer.

Three test tubes for wood sample borer

Corked test tube containing potassium oxalate, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, unsigned, 1930-1940

Corked test tube containing potassium oxalate

1930-1940

Ungraduated stoppered test tube, c.1900

Ungraduated stoppered test tube

22 Leather test tube caps, c.1900

22 Leather test tube caps

Two test tubes, broken, from mahogany medicine chest, England, United Kingdom, 1831-1900

Two test tubes from medicine chest

3 blue capped 50 ml test tubes in a red test tube rack, used for isolating white blood cells for COV002, of the type used during the clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by the Oxford Vaccine Group, the Jenner Institute and the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM)

Test tube and rack used in COVID-19 vaccine trials

2015-2020

Test tubes with original hand-written labels containing the first chemicals isolated from the human brain, prepared by J. L. W. Thudichum, St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1865-71. Choline platinochloride; lecithin cadmium chloride; phrenosine; kerasine; in perspex display case

Test tubes containing chemicals isolated from the human brain, London, England, 1865-1871

1865-1871

Two test tubes, from mahogany medicine chest, England, United Kingdom, 1831-1900

Two test tubes from medicine chest

Large test tube with ground glass stopper c.1900.

Large test tube with ground gl

Corked test tube containing sodium nitroprusside, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, unsigned, 1930-1940

Corked test tube containing sodium nitroprusside

1930-1940

Test tube, 5ml graduated test tube with ground glass neck and glass stopper. Made by H.J. Elliott Ltd. in Pontypridd, Wales, date of manufacture unknown. The object is marked with 0.1ml graduations with "5", "4", and "3" visible, together with "cm3", the E-Mil logo, "Gt. Britain" and "GOLD LINE".

5ml graduated test tube with glass stopper

unknown

6 long test tubes (180mm x 14mm) wrapped in pairs in pages from a London 'phone directory from pre-1960s (possibly a lot earlier). Tubes had writing on eg. 'AB75'.

Test tube

before 1960

4 test tubes

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