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Gold plated BBC Micro Personal Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1985

Hoover constellation vacuum cleaner with attachments

Domestic Appliances

c. 1956 - 1959

Samsung microwave oven, 1990s

Domestic Appliances

1990-1998

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

‘Larzine’ Unani medicine for malaria

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1975-1980

Globtik Tokyo

Water Transport

c. 1972

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

Railway Models

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Jaipur artificial foot, India

Orthopaedics

1982

Male anti-masturbation device, United Kingdom, 1871-1930

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1871-1930

External hearing aid

Audiology

1978-1980

John Dee's crystal, Europe, 1582

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1582

'King’s Fund’ hospital bed

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1994

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Holmgren's coloured wool test for colour blindness, Europe, 1871-1900

Ophthalmology

1871-1900

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

SaeboFlex, a mechanical orthotic device

Orthopaedics

2017

Gillette "Mach 3" razor

Public Health & Hygiene

1999

Gillette "Sensor Excel for women" razor, with two

Public Health & Hygiene

1999

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Back bar for Boyle's type anaesthetic machine, London, England, 1941-1963

Anaesthesiology

1941-1963

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Canvas straitjacket for adults, London, England, 1930-1960

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1930-1960

computer mouse prototype, 1963 (replica)

Computing & Data Processing

2011

Lower limb artificial/prosthetic for a child living with limb difference

Orthopaedics

1966

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Form board from Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937-1949

Bottle of bromocarpine nerve tonic, Paris, France, 1870-1930

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1925-1935

Orthopaedics

1925-1935

Drinker-type iron lung respirator, London, England, 1930-1939

Therapeutics

1930-1939

Casiotone electronic keyboard instrument

Acoustics

1980-1981

Case for trephination set

Surgery

1771-1830

Artificial left arm, United Kingdom, 1914-1916

Orthopaedics

1914-1916

Flip-phone

Telecommunications

c.1981

Child's adjustable metal lower leg iron, with shoe, England, 1940-1960

Orthopaedics

1940-1960

Oxygenaire MK3 portable incubator

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1955-1966

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Pair of prosthetic/artificial arms for a child living with thalidomide impairments

Orthopaedics

1963

Iron used by patients in psychiatric hospital, c. 1920-1940

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1889-1990

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

Orthopaedics

1916-1918

Haldane's oxygen apparatus

Therapeutics

1901-1930