Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Asian Medicine

before 1930

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

Surgery

1501-1600

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Model of a mobile mass miniature x-ray unit

Radiomedicine

1945-1965

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Globtik Tokyo

Water Transport

c. 1972

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

Motive Power

1898

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Copy of a 1600s wooden leper clapper, England

Public Health & Hygiene

Unknown

Statue depicting 'Shou-hsing'

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Dolls used to illustrate how haemophilia is inherited

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Wooden alms box

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1601-1800

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1925

Artificial leg made for a child, England, 1903

Orthopaedics

1903

Jaipur artificial foot, India

Orthopaedics

1982

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

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

Dunlop Maxply Under 5 badminton racket

Domestic Appliances

c. 1965

Disease mask for healing rituals

Asian Medicine

Frame saw

Hand and Machine Tools

1700-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Wood tobacco pipe

Smoking

1801-1900

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Massaging device, German,1921-1940

Therapeutics

1921-1940

Hand brand, for use on felons or deserters, England, 1642-1649

Wellcome (general)

1642-1649

Medicine chest owned by Edward Jenner

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Form board from Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937-1949

Composition pestle and mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1870-1901

Healy Pictorial Completion Test I, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1918-1919

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1918-1919

Gentleman’s toilet case, Europe, 1837-1901

Domestic Appliances

1837-1901

Fumigation box

Public Health & Hygiene

1925-1935

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Automaton for Health Matters Gallery representing "Health screening and surveillance of normal populations"

Public Health & Hygiene

1994

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

Therapeutics

1915-1925