Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

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

Biotechnology

1945

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

Public Health & Hygiene

1940-1945

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

Radio Communication

Model of a 'Chappe' type semaphore signaling tower

Telecommunications

1933

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

Science Teaching

1851-1900

Cut-away model of internal combustion engine.

Road Transport

1964-1965

Lunar crater model

Astronomy

1850-1871

Biped robot

Human Robotics

1987-1997

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

Model of Chadwick's apparatus used to discover the neutron

Nuclear Physics

1960-1970

Dr Arnold Gesell test objects

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1911-1939

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

Surveying

1601-1700

Model of a Penrose staircase

Optics

1968

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

Nuclear Energy

1956-1960

Set of tesselating wooden pieces in 3 colours

Mathematics

1890-1910

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

Radio Communication

1949

Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Meteorology

Playskool' wooden toy 1960-1980

Mathematics

1960-1980

Musical transposition calculator in circular slide-rule form

Mathematics

1840-1880

Rag on twig votive offering, Ireland, 1900-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Model of a high-pressure rotative beam engine, in

Motive Power

Walferdin maximum thermometer

Heat

1800-1899

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

Experimental Chemistry

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

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

Meteorology

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

Heat

1800-1899

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

Children's Gallery

1932

Solid wooden chopping block with sliding housing

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1900

Circular plane table, English, 1852

Surveying

1852

Wind tunnel model of Javelin aircraft

Farnborough

1950-1960

Ordinary mercury thermometer, 1801-1900

Meteorology

1801-1900

Negretti & Zambra Reversing Mercury Thermometer, 1877-78.

Oceanography

1877-1878

"Ambassador" console broadcast receiver

Radio Communication

1951

Cable sample, mounted and telescoped, around 1891

Telecommunications

c. 1891

E Beech Ticket numbering and printing machine

Industrial Chemistry

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

Experimental Chemistry

1900-1930

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

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Walferdin minimum thermometer, without markings

Heat

1800-1899

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

Heat

1800-1899