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Genoese medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1562-1566

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Face mask for Clover's chloroform inhaler

Anaesthesiology

Hand painted Indian cotton fabric

Textile Industry

1700-1800

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

Mule cops

Textile Industry

around 1960

Equal-arm balance

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Box painted with Giustiniani coat-of-arms

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Compressed bandage in cardboard box

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1928-1930

Tourniquet partially wrapped in brown paper

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1928-1930

Horseshoe-shaped electromagnet

Scientific Instruments & Research

Absorbant cotton in cardboard box

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1928-1930

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

Therapeutics

1953

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

Art

2014

Model of Joy-Sullivan 'Gloster Getter' cutter-loader and chain conveyor

Mining & Ore Dressing

1953-1961

Isolette Model III Camera

Photographic Technology

1952-1958

Rag on twig votive offering, Ireland, 1900-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Model of a hospital promoting the King Edward's Hospital Fund

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1930-1932

Manchester College of Technology Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Department printed calico cotton cloth apprentice piece

Textile Industry

1918-1950

Alba TRG097AC Combined Radiogram Television Receiver

Television

1951

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

Water Transport

1913; c. 900 CE

Biddenden cake cast, Biddenden, Kent, England, 1801-1900

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Cap from an American Red Cross uniform, United States, 1939-1945

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1939-1945

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Metal key for the writing desk of the Office of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1828-1914

The description and use of two arithmetick instruments : together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick : as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables ...

Printed Books

1673

Currie type clinical thermometer, 1800-1810

Clinical Diagnosis

1800-1810

Temporary pylon artificial leg, England, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Adjustable leather cap for Ayurvedic Shirovasti therapy, India, 2005

Asian Medicine

2005

Dudgeon sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1885-1920

Henri Lloyd waterproof sailing suit

Textile Industry

1970

Left above knee peg leg made from leather and wood in Stalag VIIIB/344

Orthopaedics

1940

Esmarch-type printed bandage, United Kingdom, 1890-1910

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

Water Transport

1719-1733

Whole rigged model of the 3-masted schooner 'E.W. Morrison'

Water Transport

1870-1909

The Tissandier 'La France' airship, 1883.

Aeronautics

1883

Rigged model of the Turbine Screw Steamer "Londonderry"

Water Transport

1904-1911

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

Water Transport

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

Gordon Dobson’s original ozone spectrograph

Meteorology

1924

Working model of the double trunk steam engines, as used on HMS 'Minotaur (1867) and HMS 'Northumberland' (1868)

Marine Engines

1845

Midwifery bag, United Kingdom, 1866-1900

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1866-1900

Whole model of a "Ulak", Bengal produce boat

Water Transport

1851-1880

Two oxygen cylinders in wooden case, Germany, 1914-1918

Therapeutics

1914-1918

‘Heartmate’ left ventricular-assist device, United States, 1993

Therapeutics

1993

Small bottle containing catgut ligatures, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1869-1875

Surgery

1869-1875

Diphtheria specimen test kit box lid

Clinical Diagnosis

1931-1950

Electric dental elevator, London, England, 1932

Dentistry

1932

Clover's lithotomy crutch, London, England, 1860-1904

Surgery

1860-1904