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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

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

Biotechnology

1945

Lunar crater model

Astronomy

1850-1871

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

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

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Carrying case, containing 2 paint cups, tin of lining out brushes and 3 callipers

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1920

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Cut-away model of internal combustion engine.

Road Transport

1964-1965

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

Nuclear Physics

1960-1970

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

Surveying

1601-1700

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

Nuclear Energy

1956-1960

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Rag on twig votive offering, Ireland, 1900-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Playskool' wooden toy 1960-1980

Mathematics

1960-1980

Biped robot

Human Robotics

1987-1997

Negretti & Zambra Reversing Mercury Thermometer, 1877-78.

Oceanography

1877-1878

The First Flexible Manufacturing System, 1967.

Hand and Machine Tools

Model of a Penrose staircase

Optics

1968

"Ambassador" console broadcast receiver

Radio Communication

1951

Model of a 'Chappe' type semaphore signaling tower

Telecommunications

1933

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Ordinary mercury thermometer, 1801-1900

Meteorology

1801-1900

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

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

Radio Communication

1949

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory

Nuclear Physics

1945-1955

Set of tesselating wooden pieces in 3 colours

Mathematics

1890-1910

Dr Arnold Gesell test objects

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1911-1939

Walferdin maximum thermometer

Heat

1800-1899

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

Radio Communication

James Goddard type Cloud Mirror, 1862

Meteorology

1862

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

Science Teaching

1851-1900

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48, inscribed: ‘M. O. 13 / 48’

Meteorology

Bernal's (Reproduction) X-Ray Diffraction Camera, 1948-1952

Experimental Chemistry

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

Heat

1800-1899

Cable sample, mounted and telescoped, around 1891

Telecommunications

c. 1891

Circular plane table, English, 1852

Surveying

1852

Solid wooden chopping block with sliding housing

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1900

Wind tunnel model of Javelin aircraft

Farnborough

1950-1960

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

Children's Gallery

1932

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

Heat

1800-1899

E Beech Ticket numbering and printing machine

Industrial Chemistry

Walferdin minimum thermometer, without markings

Heat

1800-1899

Pine wood box, containing set of P. Jacobson's pattern atomic models

Experimental Chemistry

1900-1930

cable sample, mounted and telescoped, 1889-1892

Telecommunications

1889-1892

Aitken's portable dust counter, No.116, M O 1A, in wooden case

Meteorology