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Material
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Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Replica Arkwright water frame

1983

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

Box of blood grouping sera

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

2014

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Cervical cap, ‘Improved Gem’ type

1930-1960

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

1933

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Cotton comber web (Nasmith Comber)

Cotton card sliver

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1955-1960

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular

Barbie Doll, white skinned, white pinafore

1980-1990

Barbie Doll, 'Black Ken'

1980-1990

Salvarsan kit

1909-1912

Silver medal

1937

Wooden 'Anglesey' artificial right leg, England, 1915-1925

1915-1925

'P & K' artificial left arm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1920-1925

1920-1925

'Smith-Clarke Senior' adult cabinet 'Iron Lung'

1953

Claude Lorrain mirror

Pair of RAF aircrew flying boots, 1944

Rigged model of Bermuda rig racing dinghy 'H.D.C. II'

1926

British Airways t-shirt

Pathfinder flying boot

circa 1932

Duckham's Oils overalls used by David Cook

1978

Rigged model of a Portuguese caravela

1900-1934

Model of torpedo boat destroyer HMS 'Tartar'

1907-1935

Model of a 'Ness Yole'

1925-1932; 1962

Model of a log-raft used by the Miao Tzu people in the Kweichow province of China

1960-1965

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

1872

Conoid in contact with a hyperbolic paraboloid, surface string model

1872