Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Statue depicting Shou Lao (Shou Xing), Chinese god of longevity

Asian Medicine

before 1930

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

Surgery

1501-1600

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Globtik Tokyo

Water Transport

c. 1972

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

Railway Models

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Jaipur artificial foot, India

Orthopaedics

1982

Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Disease mask for healing rituals

Asian Medicine

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Mother and child statue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Copy of a 1600s wooden leper clapper, England

Public Health & Hygiene

Unknown

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 100 CE

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Dunlop Maxply Under 5 badminton racket with steel

Domestic Appliances

c. 1965

Physician's walking stick with snake carving

Orthopaedics

1771-1870

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Form board from Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937-1949

Wooden alms box

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1601-1800

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1925-1935

Orthopaedics

1925-1935

Medicine chest owned by Edward Jenner

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Model of a mobile mass miniature x-ray unit

Radiomedicine

1945-1965

Case for trephination set

Surgery

1771-1830

Prosthetic/artificial limbs for a 29 month old child

Orthopaedics

1965

Ritual mask

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1900

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1889-1990

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

Pumping Machinery

1968-1971