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Tape dispenser and Scotch sticky tape

2000-2004

Tidal Turbine Blade from Orbital Marine Power's SR2000 Turbine

2016

Pluto bumper stickers

2006

Mercury total immersion thermometer

1950-1989

Crystallised Sugar Solution in Display Jar, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Crystallised Sugar Solution in Display Jar, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Crystallised Sugar Solution in Display Jar, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Crystallised Sugar Solution in Display Jar, 1920-1930

1920-1930

3D printed 'Crayon Creature' models

2013

Roll of bio-hazard tape

circa 2014-15

IBM San Jose Disk Storage Progress showing improvements in data storage

1985-1990

Small Polymer Solar Cell with Carbon Contacts

2014

Three books used in experiments on the gender behaviour of children

1990-2000

Paper place mat, white with Silver Jubilee logo in centre. Overall: 195 mm x 325 mm.

Paper place mat

Three sheets of yellow sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers in the 'diagnostic tent' at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Yellow sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers

circa 2014-15

Framed diagram of the 'Atlas of Acupuncture Points', showing a full length frontal view of a male figure marked with acupuncture points and connecting lines, from the surgery of a British practitioner c.1996, originally designed by Shohaku Honma in 1946, published by Ido-No Nipponsha, Yokosuka, Japanese, 1970-1990.

Framed diagram of the 'Atlas of Acupuncture Points', front view

1970-1990

Framed diagram of the 'Atlas of Acupuncture Points', showing a full length back view of a male figure marked with acupuncture points and connecting lines, from the surgery of a British practitioner c.1996. originally designed by Shohaku Honma in 1946, published by Ido-No Nipponsha, Yokosuka, Japanese, 1970-1990.

Framed diagram of the 'Atlas of Acupuncture Points', rear view

1970-1990

Four glass prisms, one broken, made 1850-1924 (see note)

Four glass prisms

1900-1924

Made by Chas. M Higgins and Co., Brooklyn, NY. London Office 106 Charing Cross Road. Adhesive for photographers, patented in US and England December 29 1891, September 1899. In glass jar with printed metal screw top.

Higgin's Photo-Mounter adhesive

1891-1911

Model of A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley by Rowland Emett, scale approximately 1-inch to 1-foot, about 1983. Depicts eccentric scenes on Emett's fantastical Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway with the locomotive 'Wild Goose' visiting Cowparsley Meadow, Far Tottering, Wisteria Halt, Shrimphaven Sands, Twittering Woods and Oyster Creek. Enclosed in a Perspex case.

Model of A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley by Rowland Emett

circa 1983

A home-made 'lockdown cinema', designed to sit over a laptop to produce the illustion of cinema attendance. Made by Tom Kingsley, London, January 2021 and first demonstrated on his Twitter feed.

Home-made lockdown cinema for laptop

January 2021

Single sheet of red sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers in the 'diagnostic tent' at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Red sticky labels for use by laboratory workers

circa 2014-15

Two sheets of blue sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers in the 'diagnostic tent' at the Manteneh Ebola Treatment Centre during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Blue sticky labels, for use by laboratory workers

circa 2014-15