Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester

Electricity Supply

1954-1955

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Ped-O-Jet mass inoculation gun

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

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

Biotechnology

1945

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

A stchoty, Russian abacus.

Mathematics

1901-1930

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

Time Measurement

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

Clockmakers

1780-1850

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Arriflex 2C 35mm cine camera

Cinematography

1960

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

Orthopaedics

c.1919

Marine timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Complete Omega Speedmaster watch with velcro strap

Space Technology

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Watson Royal microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1925-1940

Forest of Rods model of myoglobin

Biochemistry

1960

Prototype ‘Manpack’ ground terminals, 1980-1989

Space Technology

1980-1989

Hirtz's compass for locating bullets, Paris, France, 1915

Clinical Diagnosis

1915

Honda C100 motorcycle

Road Transport

1965

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Colchester 2000L CNC lathe

Production Machinery

1985-2000

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

'Bloom' kinetic sculpture by Studio Roso

Studio Roso

2019

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1952

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938; (1838)

OALC4 DA fibre optic submarine cable, 1999

Telecommunications

1999

'Smith-Clarke Senior' adult cabinet 'Iron Lung'

Therapeutics

1953