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Wooden 'Anglesey' artificial right leg, England, 1915-1925

Orthopaedics

1915-1925

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Radio tuning coil No. 750, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) simulator, 1950

Computing & Data Processing

1950

Radio tuning coil No. 300, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 1000, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 400, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 150, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 75, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 100, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 500, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Radio tuning coil No. 200, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790

Model of 120 gun ship: the French 1st rate "Ocean"

Water Transport

1793-1815

Wooden Cross-staff.

Navigation

1687

Crystal structure represented by an arrangement of ten spheres

Experimental Chemistry

1812-1813

Main part of a working model of a differential analyser constructed from the construction toy, Meccano, made by Professor Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter at University of Manchester, England, 1934. Reconstructed by Prof. Douglas Hartree at University of Cambridge, England, 1947

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

Mathematics

1934; 1947

Pulse glass in wooden case

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

First aid kit in japanned metal case, England, 1931-1932

Therapeutics

1931-1932

Rheophore for rectum or vagina, by Down, English

Therapeutics

Level & clinometer, English, 1860-1910

Surveying

1860-1910

Compass, China or Japan, 1800-1920

Asian Medicine

1800-1920

Lid, fitted with ‘inspection’ windows, for Vibrating wire device, No L-30.000

Meteorology

Dummy nuclear fuel element, presented by the General Electric Co, USA

Nuclear Energy

1960-1970

Waiting Room Seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway, pale wooden seat, varnished T & HJR carved on back. Overall: 875 mm x 2345 mm x 510 mm.

Station seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway

Railway Furniture

Waiting Room Seat, Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Committee, Ornate wooden bench, varnished. GN & GEJC carved on back.

Wooden station bench, Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Committee

Railway Furniture

Glass Plate with Ruled Parallel Lines In Varnish

Photographs

1852

Kaleidoscope by William Harris & Co., London, 1825

Optics

1816-1839

Working wood model, of a disc steam engine as patented by Taylor and Davies in 1836-8 and repeatedly trialled on land and at sea.

Model of disc engine

Marine Engines

1836-1857

Crompton Parkinson A C test meter set no.1181546 - 1926. with extra resistance unit mounted on the back

Crompton Parkinson A C test meter set no.1181546 -

Electricity Supply

1926

Etchings with ruled line grounds (before 1852). Prepared as experimental trials of ground effect by ordinary mechanical means, no photo-etching involved. Three steel plates, in box, with rulings on surface varnish layer, 5" x 3 1/2".

Three Varnished Steel Plates Marked With Parrallel Lines

Photographs

1852

Working model, scale 1:12, of a proposed modified twin-cylinder or 'Siamese' paddle wheel engine to suit the requirements of screw propulsion with one crank and representing only half of the engine (c.1850), on wooden base, by Maudslay, Sons and Field, Lambeth, London, England, 1850-1900

Working model, scale 1:12, of a proposed modified twin-cylinder or 'Siamese' paddle wheel engine

Marine Engines

1850-1900

Dried genito-urinary system from an unidentified species of mammal

Dried genito-urinary system from an unidentified s

Veterinary Medicine