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'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Technical script for 'Our World' television broadcast

1967

Final Apollo II Flight Plan

1969

Writers' original script for 'Our World' TV broadcast

1967

'Radio Times' volume 119 (Coronation Edition)

May 1953

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Report on a fact-finding trip leading to the development of the LEO computer, 1947

1947

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Advertisement for penicillin production from Life magazine, United States, August 14 1944

1944

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Absolute Unit Twitter Meme. An internet meme composed of a black and white photograph of a large ram

2018

Quantum Mechanics

1926

Diagram of Gaia and feedback loop by James Lovelock

engineering sketchbook

1790-1810

Drawings (9) of colonial cruisers "Tauranga" and "Ringarooma"

1890-1891

Early x-ray glass plates

1890-1900

Records of the Baker Perkins company

1820-1969

Plans (3) for steel protected cruiser "Pandora"

1888

Collection of 245 engineering drawings

circa 1830-1918

Collection of 820 civil and mechanical engineering drawings

circa 1804-circa 1852

Photographs of Atlantic telegraph cable machinery aboard SS 'Great Eastern', 1867

1867

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970

'The Story of Penicillin' by George Lacken, England, 1945

1945

Archival records of International Computers Ltd., 1915-1980s

1915-1989

Digital copy of Rastrick, John Urpeth: Common Place Book. [Shropshire] [1803?-1809].

digital copy 2015; original [1803?-1809].

Aquatint print of design of cast iron bridge by Thomas Telford, 1801

1801

Diagram of atmospheric haze at Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, by James Lovelock

1960-1969

Ten volumes of original Hooper & Co. (Coachbuilders) Ltd. Photographs

The Works of Messrs. Perkin & Sons at Greenford Green

nd.

Apollo Lunar Orbit Chart (ALO)

circa 1969

James Lovelock’s notebook from the RRS Shackleton voyage

1971

James Lovelock’s notes for a lecture about detecting life on other planets

1966

Albums (12) of photographs of electricity pylons in various countries

1920-1929

Handwritten pocket diary for 1916 by 296 Private Alex L Russell

1916

Two Acts of Parliament allowing construction of docks and warehouses in London, bound in one

1800-1804

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Tower Bridge Northern Abutment

1886

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970

Porton Down Archive of Chemical Warfare

1912-1989

Trade card of Joseph Merlin

1770-1779

Captain Condom articles

1992

Anonymously compiled 18th century ms. volume of excerpts from alchemical works

1701-1800

Five maker’s photographs of vehicles with unorthodox traction systems

circa 1930

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

1854

Printout of the Daisyworld programme developed by James Lovelock

1981

Mounted sepia photos (2) of the birthplace of John Dalton

late 19th century

Manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials, related to Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)

1854-1923

James Lovelock’s early drafts of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

1970

Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine

circa 1850