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

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Notice, cardboard and tin, London & North Eastern Railway, "

Passenger Comforts

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Model of street-sweeping machine.

Domestic Appliances

1850-1857

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

Whole model of H.M. first class battleship 'Lord Nelson'

Warships

1906-1910

Space food, bacon sandwich made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's journey to the International Space Station, ALTEC

Space Technology

2015

1 Packet “Bismuth and tin crystallised in mercury”

Packet: “Bismuth and tin crystallised in mercury”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Mahogany “Damping well” lined with zinc, lids covered with zinc with brass knobs, one well empty, the other containing sheet of paper adhering to plaster and two clean sheets of copying (Part of Watt’s copying machine)

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

First field dressing in ring pull packet

Surgery

1916

Surgical instrument set

Surgery

1939

Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, London, England, 1914-1918

Audiology

1914-1918

Lime curd space food made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake

Collection Unassigned

2015

Space food, Stewed apples made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station, by Altec.

Space Technology

2015

Space food, truffled beef stew made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's mission to the International Space Station, ALTEC

Collection Unassigned

2015

Metal bottle for Graves' tooth powder, United States, 1906-1916

Dentistry

1906-1916

Dr Arnold Gesell test objects

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1911-1939

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

Marine Engines

1903

Exactus adder

Mathematics

1945-1955

Edward Jenner's tobacco box, Europe, 1820-1821

Public Health & Hygiene

1810-1821

Space food, Sausage sizzle made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station

Space Technology

2015

Kolff artificial kidney, Netherlands, 1955-1956

Therapeutics

1955-1956

'P & K' artificial left arm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1920-1925

Orthopaedics

1920-1925

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Mighty Robot

Human Robotics

1964-1966

Metal collecting box, France, 1914-1918

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1914-1918

Magic Lantern

Cinematography

1780-1820

Enamel notice, Rutland St, St Helens, Brynmill, Ashleigh Rd, Blackpill, West Cross, Norton Road, Oystermouth, Southend, Mumbles Pier. Overall: 484 mm x 190 mm x 2 mm.

Rutland St sign

Railway Infrastructure

Mahogany “Damping well” lined with zinc, lids covered with zinc with brass knobs, one well empty, the other containing sheet of paper adhering to plaster and two clean sheets of copying

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Space food, Operation Raleigh (salmon) made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station, by Altec.

Space Technology

2015

Space food, chicken curry made in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal for Tim Peake's mission to the International Space Station

Space Technology

2015

Enamel notice, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, "L&YR (Lurry to Call)". Red letters on white. Overall: 124 mm x 200 mm x 1 mm.

L&YR Lurry to Call notice

Railway Infrastructure

Cylinder ‘Medico-Electrical Machine’, made by Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt, with Leyden jars contained within two tin-plate prime conductors; original and complete. Based on Nairne's patented design of 1782. Used by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution, and depicted in Harriet Moore's 1850s watercolours of Faraday in his laboratory.

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

Electricity and Magnetism

1782-1793

Penicillin sodium salt reduction residue, prepared by Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 1942-1943

Penicillin sodium salt reduction residue

Biotechnology

1942-1943

Tin case containing an assortment of items associated with the MoD HF radio station D11/R230

Radio Communication

Kelvin Quadrant Electrometer, 1866

Geophysics

1866

Microscope Accessories

Scientific Instruments & Research

Metal component associated with the reconstruction of Priestley's pneumatic trough

Experimental Chemistry

Sensitive Hair Element, in tin-lidded topped glass tube, for Aircraft temperature, humidity and pressure recorder

Meteorology

1941

Objective Cover Glass Fasteners

Scientific Instruments & Research

1920-1925

Model of aluminium atom, showing Bohr orbits

Nuclear Physics

1937-1947

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

Cupping vessel, tin, roughly cone shaped with spou

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1919-1939

Agfa Flash Light Outfit

Photographic Technology

1905-1915

Metal tin of screws for mount struts from Supermarine Rolls Royce Seaplane

Aeronautics

1931