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Human Support Robot

Human Support Robot

2012
Marley High Speed Camera with Multi Lenses

Marley High Speed Camera with Multi Lenses

Radio Distress Beacon (EPIRB), 1980s

Radio Distress Beacon (EPIRB), 1980s

1984-1986
Liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.

Liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.

1957
Model 401 Thermo-Ammeter

Model 401 Thermo-Ammeter

SEC vidicon camera tube - identical to one used in IUE (international ultra-violet explorer) satellite

SEC vidicon camera tube - identical to one used in IUE (international ultra-violet explorer) satellite

1972
Capacitance Displacement Transducer, 1970-1982.

Capacitance Displacement Transducer, 1970-1982.

1970-1982
Laboratory fermenter, 1986

Laboratory fermenter, 1986

1986
UK5 (Ariel V) Satellite Gas Container, English, 1971

UK5 (Ariel V) Satellite Gas Container, English, 1971

1970-1971
Long-Schattner Prepayment meter no.769

Long-Schattner Prepayment meter no.769

ammeter, displayed without casing (NOT PRESENT) from display panel on "Pivotless instruments"

ammeter, displayed without casing (NOT PRESENT) from display panel on "Pivotless instruments"

Dynamo from Parsons' Axial Flow Steam Turbine

Dynamo from Parsons' Axial Flow Steam Turbine

1901
set of separate parts for moving coil meter

set of separate parts for moving coil meter

Prometheus drone, made up of four propellers, raspberry pi microcontroller with cable, motor control box with cable, plastic box with PCB inside and push button with wires. Manufactured by Headlight AI and the University of Manchester, London, 2022.

Prometheus Drone

2022
Demonstration of reproduction of sound from sound film.

reproduction of sound from sound film

1949
Human Support Robot, by Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan, 2012. Built under their ‘Robot Partners’ programme.

Human Support Robot, built under their ‘Robot Partners’ programme

2012
Soft x-ray microscope using zone plate focussing, made at King's College, London, England, in about 1985 and used on a beam line of the Daresbury synchrotron radiation source until about 1997.

Soft X-Ray Microscope, 1986

1986
Automatic Train Protection/Automatic Train Operation switch assembly taken from a train using the AutoHaul system, developed by Rio Tinto Iron Ore WA and Hitachi Rail STS, on Rio Tinto's Pilbara iron-ore railway network - the world’s first automated heavy-haul freight railway (fully driverless operation with no crew on board). Once a train has been prepared for the trunk haul, the set-up driver contacts the control centre, establishes a data connection and switches over to automatic operation. The driver then leaves the cab and enables the ATO using an external switch, leaving the control system to dispatch the train at the appropriate time. To ensure safety, locomotives operating automatically display blue lights on the roof. Rio Tinto completed the transition to entirely automated operation of its 1500km railway in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, becoming the first heavy-haul railway in the world to operate an automated network. Described by Rio Tinto as the world’s largest robot, AutoHaul is operating up to 50 automated and unmanned trains at any one time. Each 240-wagon, 2.4km-long consist, requires two to three locomotives, which haul 28,000 tonnes of iron-ore from the company’s 16 mines to the ports of Dampier and Cape Lambert on an average 800km, 40-hour journey.

Automatic Train Protection/Automatic Train Operation Switch Assembly, Rio Tinto Pilbara Iron-Ore Railway Network

2018
Huxley pattern ultramicrotome, serial no. C718537, by the Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd., Cambridge, England, 1966 (see note).

Ultramicrotome, Huxley pattern

1966
Animated flow process diagram for model, scale 1:80, of 'Ammonia Four', an ammonia synthesis plant at ICI Agricultural Division, Billingham works, by Cleveland Process Designs and ICI Ltd, Stockton on Tees, England, 1976.

Animated flow process diagram, for model of ICI Billingham 'Ammonia Four' Ammonia synthesis plant

1976
Field Ion Microscope made in the Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, England, 1962.

Field Ion Microscope, c. 1962

1962
Electric speed indicating equipment No.782073

Electric speed indicating equipment No.782073

4 MeV electron linear accelerator built by D.W. Fry et al, c. 1948. Ancillary - equipment: IONISATION GAUGE CONTROL UNIT model 3. Made in England by Edwards High Vacuum Ltd., Crawley, Sussex.

4 MeV electron linear accelerator built by D.W. Fry et al

1947