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Soldering paste in tub (from mobile phone repair workshop)

1990-2012

Thermostat for Motor Car Engine, 1950-51

1950-1951

Helium Liquefier by Prof. F. E. Simon, 1932-36

1932-1936

Boys' Radiomicrometer, 1887-1900

1887-1900

Magic Lantern

1801-1900

Capsule Thermostat (Temperature Controller), 1881-1900

1881-1900

Copper Cube and Condensing Syringe Apparatus, 1872

1872

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

Cable

Open laser tube, for carbon dioxide laser, pin bar construction for use at atmospheric pressure

1970-1980

Replica of the Crick and Watson DNA model

1996

Flexible photovoltaic cell powered by semiconducting plastic

2006-2007

Surgical knife with scabbard

1801-1900

Early Platinum Electrical Resistance Thermometer, 1871-1890

1871-1890

Heater mat for TD1A Satellite, 1970

1970

Clinical surface thermometer

1886-1930

Clinical surface thermometer

1886-1930

Sinclair 'Black Watch' with LED display

1976

Cupping vessel

1919-1939

Computer / Communication system for wheelchair

Variable power telescope

1919

Capsule Thermostat (Temperature Controller), 1945-1950

1945-1950

Reconstruction of Hero's Thermoscope (c. 50 A.D.)

Clinical surface thermometer

1886-1930

Copy of a fumigating torch carried for protection against bubonic plague, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Computer / Communication system for wheelchair

Coronal Thermopile, used by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, 1905

1900-1905

Replica of one of the apparatuses (1906) used by Rutherford to determine the ratio of e/m for alpha particles

1964-1974

Analogue signal processor ('Blink') for Hawking's cheek movement detector, without enclosure

Analogue signal processor ('Blink') for Hawking's cheek movement detector, without enclosure

Electronic equipment related to Stephen Hawking's communications

Intel circuit board for Hawking's communications equipment

Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer board

1985-1988
Properties of Carbon Dioxide Instrument, original apparatus used by Thomas Andrews, 1863-1876. Apparatus made by J. A. Cumine, 57 Arthur Street, Belfast.

Properties of Carbon Dioxide Gas Apparatus, 1863

1863
Copper ewer/measuring jug, with etched pattern around the waist. Overall: 340 mm x 315 mm x 280 mm, 2.81kg.

Copper ewer/measuring jug

Four gallon copper jug, stamped with official measure and maker's mark (unidentified) inside rim. Overall: 395 mm x 420 mm x 402 mm, 4.81kg.

Four gallon copper ewer/measuring jug

Replica of Joule's water friction apparatus (calorimeter), 1849. Paddle wheel apparatus for measuring mechanical equivalence of heat.

Replica of Joule's Water-Friction Apparatus (Calorimeter), 1849

1849
Helical pin gas discharge tube, component of carbon dioxide laser, made at the University of Hull, 1969. The tube would contain a gas mixture of 80% helium, 10% carbon dioxide and 10% nitrogen at atmospheric pressure. To initiate laser action, it is necessary to produce a homogeneous glow electrical discharge along the axis of the tube. This is attained by "summing" the individual spray discharges between opposite pins of the twin helix. The e.h.t. helix pins are ballasted by resistors.

Helical pin gas discharge tube

1969-1971
Experimental photo-electric radiation pyrometer, temperature indicator. Designed by T. C. Keeley at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, England, 1920-33.

Photo-Electric Radiation Pyrometer (Temperature Indicator), 1920-33

1920-1933
Brita filter

Water filter

2010-2018
Portable moving iron voltmeter, 12V+120V ranges, with one attached lead, in fitted case, 1925-49.

Portable moving iron voltmeter

1925-1949
Early Collins type expansion engine used in helium liquefiers, by The British Oxygen Company Limited, England, 1970-75.

Collins' Expansion Engine from Helium Liquefier, 1970-75

1970-1975
Geiger-.Muller counter tube (type EHM2.) by General Electric Company Limited, England, 1939-1950

G.M. counter tube, type EHM2. G.E.C.

1939-1950
Animated lantern slide, Ross 'wheel of life'. Inscription: Copied from original designs by permission of the London Microscope Company PB.

Wheel of Life magic lantern slide

Copy of Rutherford's bombardment chamber used for his experiments on the collision of alpha particles with nitrogen nuclei, unsigned, British, 1964-1974

Copy of Rutherford's bombardment chamber

1964-1974
Sectioned corrugated wave-guide for linear electron accelerator, unsigned, British, 1945-1955. With a display plaque.

Sectioned corrugated wave-guide for linear electron accelerator

1945-1955
Sectioned Gun End and Target End wave-guide transformers for linear electron accelerators, unsigned, British, 1945-1955. With a display plaque for each transformer.

Sectioned Gun End and Target End wave-guide transformers for linear electron accelerators

1945-1955
Brass box spanner, with a rectangular piece of brass and two glass plate components, from Prof. F.W. Aston's original Aston Mass-Spectrograph, by Francis William Aston, Cambridge, England, 1918-1925

Brass box spanner

1918-1925
Mines lantern as used in collieries in South Staffordshire coalfields

Mines lantern

-1885