Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Box containing a miniature Qur'an. Replica of the Ka‘ba

2011

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

'Merman'

1801-1900

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

'Build a Better Burger' Game

1984-1986

Carton of four Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) tablets, Sandwich, England, 1996-1998

1998

Original laboratory sample of 'M and B 693', England, 1938

1938

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

Gangajal, sacred water from the River Ganges

2017

Sample of malaria vaccine SPf66

1988

Daily Herald Order of Industrial Heroism certificate awarded to Albert George Powell Marsh

1955

'The new National Health Service' leaflet

1948

Dr Leonard Levy’s Pastilles Radiometer

1910-1930

Packet containing a rubber condom

1930-1965

Hysteroscope with camera attachment

1958-1965

Ceramic teaching doll to show treatment for polio

1930-1950

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

1923

Model of adenovirus

1974-1976

Roll of Honour for gallantry medal, London & North Eastern Railway

1947

Model Route Indicating Signal Console

1975

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Pill tile with four short legs

1701-1800

Medicated soap, England, 1935-1945

1935-1945

Model of Twin Cotton Mills

1950

GNR Railway Poster, The Skegness Cure

1911

Portable fluoroscope, Europe, 1912-1922

1912-1922

'Electric tonic' amusement machine, Europe, 1915-1925

1915-1925

Copy of the citation given to Hayley Jordan

2016

Capacitor used in the development of the 'Baby' computer

1948

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Tissue wrapped and decorated memory box

Time Travellers invitation

2013

Scientific publication: 'The Boundary Conditions of the Universe'

1981-1982

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797