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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Pair of prosthetic limbs, for Thalidomide affected 9-year old child

Orthopaedics

1971

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1936

Penicillium mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Copy of a 1600s wooden leper clapper, England

Public Health & Hygiene

Unknown

Wooden alms box

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1601-1800

Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Model of a mobile mass miniature x-ray unit

Radiomedicine

1945-1965

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Pair of 'swivel-walkers' designed for a child born with no lower limbs, United Kingdom, 1966

Orthopaedics

1966

Portable spinning wheel, labelled 'James Webster,

Textiles Machinery

1745-1790

Globtik Tokyo

Water Transport

c. 1972

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

Surgery

1501-1600

Colt's stretcher for narrow trenches

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1915-1918

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Chronoscope, England, 1921-1939

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921-1939

Circular unit of Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

'Electric tonic' amusement machine, Europe, 1915-1925

Therapeutics

1915-1925

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Pohl Omniskop X-ray apparatus, Kiel, Germany, 1925-1935

Radiomedicine

1925-1935

Wood tobacco pipe, ivory mouthpiece, exaggerated i

Smoking

1801-1900

Medicine chest owned by Edward Jenner

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Case for phantom larynx

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1916

Model of Mass Radiography Unit, England, 1948-1955

Radiomedicine

1948-1955

Iron used by patients in psychiatric hospital, c. 1920-1940

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1889-1990

Automaton for Health Matters Gallery

Public Health & Hygiene

1994

London pattern turnscrew (screwdriver) with nicked

Hand and Machine Tools

Unknown

Mother and child statue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

Dunlop Maxply Under 5 badminton racket with steel

Domestic Appliances

c. 1965

Set of 8 brass handled, inspector's Imperial standard testing weights

Weighing & Measuring

1890

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

Pumping Machinery

1881 (original)

Resuscitation bellows

Therapeutics

1801-1850

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

Railway Models

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Statue of Li T'ieh-Kuai

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Copy of Pasteur's flask used in his experiments on spontaneous generation, France, 1888-1927

Microbiology

1888-1927

Man catcher, Germany, 1601-1800

Wellcome (general)

1601-1800

Fumigation box

Public Health & Hygiene

1925-1935