Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

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

Biotechnology

1945

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Statue of the goddess Hygeia, Roman, 100 BCE - 100 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

Biped robot

Human Robotics

1987-1997

Educational toy, object lesson box or 'Cabinet of Natural History'

Science Teaching

1851-1900

Dr Arnold Gesell test objects

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1911-1939

Cut-away model of internal combustion engine.

Road Transport

1964-1965

Model of a Penrose staircase

Optics

1968

Model of a 'Chappe' type semaphore signaling tower

Telecommunications

1933

Half-block model, of first-rate ship of war stern-galleries on starboard side

Water Transport

1810-1830

Lunar crater model

Astronomy

1850-1871

Mining compass in engraved ivory case, Italian, 17th century

Surveying

1601-1700

Musical transposition calculator in circular slide-rule form

Mathematics

1840-1880

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

Negretti & Zambra Reversing Mercury Thermometer, 1877-78.

Oceanography

1877-1878

Original machine for etching glass with geometrical designs, with base, plus three etched wine glasses, showing the type of design made by the machine

Glass Technology

1865-1875

Half-block model, of first-rate ship of war stern-galleries on port side

Water Transport

1810-1830

A Philosopher gives a Lecture on the Orrery

Joseph Wright of

1768

Rag on twig votive offering, Ireland, 1900-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Playskool' wooden toy 1960-1980

Mathematics

1960-1980

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Meteorology

M.O. Bibby recorder Mark II, Met Ref 985, MO 3/49,

Meteorology

Model of a high-pressure rotative beam engine, in

Motive Power

James Goddard type Cloud Mirror, 1862

Meteorology

1862

Walferdin minimum thermometer

Heat

1800-1899

Sectioned model of one of the Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station reactors

Nuclear Energy

1956-1960

Circular plane table, English, 1852

Surveying

1852

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

Heat

1800-1899

Engraved plate, around 1891

Telecommunications

c. 1891

Ordinary mercury thermometer, 1801-1900

Meteorology

1801-1900

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with windlass, pulley block and weight

Children's Gallery

1932

Seven 1/4 scale models of apparatus used by Heinrich Hertz, 1949

Radio Communication

1949

Walferdin minimum thermometer, without markings

Heat

1800-1899

Set of tesselating wooden pieces in 3 colours

Mathematics

1890-1910

Box, of '"Brymay" Special Safety Matches', within a matchbox holder

Firemaking

1935

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Meteorology

Flying suit, single piece pressure suit with conce

Farnborough

1950-1960

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

Public Health & Hygiene

1940-1945

Goblin Time-Spot receiver (lw/mw/sw), with built-i

Radio Communication