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Cock-feathered male Sebright Bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Hen-feathered male Sebright bantam

Biotechnology

1914-1924

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

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

Biotechnology

1945

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

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

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1920

Rag on twig votive offering, Ireland, 1900-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Model of a Penrose staircase

Optics

1968

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

Surveying

1601-1700

Lunar crater model

Astronomy

1850-1871

Model of a 'Chappe' type semaphore signaling tower

Telecommunications

1933

Wartime civilian receiver (AC), 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

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

Playskool' wooden toy 1960-1980

Mathematics

1960-1980

Dr Arnold Gesell test objects

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1911-1939

Musical transposition calculator in circular slide-rule form

Mathematics

1840-1880

The Colt Blackout Ventilator

Public Health & Hygiene

1940-1945

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

Meteorology

"Ambassador" console broadcast receiver

Radio Communication

1951

Walferdin maximum thermometer, by Stock á Paris

Heat

1800-1899

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

Experimental Chemistry

1948-1952 (original); 1965 (reproduction)

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

Ordinary mercury thermometer, 1801-1900

Meteorology

1801-1900

Wind tunnel model of Javelin aircraft

Farnborough

1950-1960

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

Nuclear Energy

1956-1960

Negretti & Zambra Reversing Mercury Thermometer, 1877-78.

Oceanography

1877-1878

Biped robot

Human Robotics

1987-1997

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

Children's Gallery

1932

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

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 Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

Experimental Chemistry

1900-1930

Walferdin minimum thermometer, without markings

Heat

1800-1899

Walferdin thermometer with broken bulb

Heat

1800-1899

E Beech Ticket numbering and printing machine

Industrial Chemistry

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

Meteorology

Purpose built wooden stand for four trussed beam models

Motive Power

1855-1876

Analytical Weights Set

Weighing & Measuring

1870-1920

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory

Nuclear Physics

1945-1955

cable sample, mounted and telescoped, 1889-1892

Telecommunications

1889-1892

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with windlass, pulley block and weight

Children's Gallery

1932

Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Meteorology

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Meteorology