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Model of a cobalt-60 source

1985

Photograph : The artificial transmutation of a nitrogen atom

Chadwick's Cigarette Box containing Metal Foils and Paraffin Wax, 1932.

1932

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1918-1925

One Metre Section of Injector Tank For `Nimrod'

Four Photographs of American Atomic Bomb Test

1947; (1946-07-24)

Two photographs, taken with a deep expansion chamber, showing cosmic-ray tracks in oxygen

Electron diffraction patterns produced by G.P. Thomson, 1933-35

Two photographs, beta-ray from thorium C and alpha-ray from thorium C1

Pair of Helmholtz Coils to fit Teltron Fine Beam Tube, 1997

1997

Three specimens

Specimen of pitchblende. Also

Photograph, showing 63 million volt positron passing through a 6 mm lead plate

Model Particle Accelerator and Key

1938-1951

Photograph on POP paper by Henri Becquerel showing experiments with beta rays

1901

Photograph on POP paper by Henri Becquerel showing experiments with beta rays

1901

Electromechanical counter, 1930-4

1930-1934

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Part of Compact Disc player

1997

Three pieces and small prism of silver gallium sulphide

Replica; Rutherford's apparatus for investigating alpha particles

Cracked crystal of lithium niobate

LHC first physics press pack

2010

Back wound betatron magnet by British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., 1947

1947

Centrifuge Plate

1950

Centrifuge Plate

1950

Centrifuge Plate

1950

Centrifuge Plate

1950

Hydrogen Bottle

Valve amplifier used by Frédéric Joliet and Irène Joliot-Curie

1930-1934

Direct Current Amplifier for Ionisation Chamber

1955-1969

Ionisation chamber (Radioisotope dose calibrator) with three plastic sample holders

1960-1969

Specimen of sand melted by the explosion of the first test atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 1945

1945

Diagram of Robert Andrews Millikan's method of measuring the charge on the electron

1945-1948

Seven guide needles for iridium - 192 pins

1981

Tinian Island Pass, 1945.

1945

Drawing of John Sealy Townsend's method of determining e (1897)

1945-1948

Diagram of Joseph John Thomson's method of measuring electromagnet for thermo-electrons (1899)

1945-1948

Electron diffraction transmission photograph of gold, 1925-1927

1925-1927

Electron diffraction transmission diapositive of celluloid, 1925-1927

1925-1927

Electron diffraction transmission photograph of aluminium, 1925-1927

1925-1927

Silicate glass amplifier disc

1977

Animated model of helium atom

1952

Model of lithium atom, showing Bohr orbits

External target for colliding with protons from the Nimrod particle accelerator, 1964-1978.

1964-1978

Fox-Smith prism component

1962-1972

laser

1973