Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester

Electricity Supply

1954-1955

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

Public Health & Hygiene

1923

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Avro Shackleton A.E.W. 2

Aeronautics

1954

Liquid-filled plastic lens television magnifier, 1935-1965

Radio Communication

1935-1965

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard, 1925-1960

Telecommunications

1925-1960

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

Biotechnology

1945

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Flying shuttle

Textile Industry

1920-1960

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Radio Communication

1922-1925

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

Experimental Chemistry

1957

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

Telecommunications

1925-1958

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

replica of the first transistor, 1947-2003

Computing & Data Processing

1947-2003

Piorry type monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1834-1883

Model of Stephenson's Rocket

Railway Models

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

Radio Communication

1953

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Avro 594 Avian Mk IIIA

Aeronautics

1928

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Haemoglobin model

Biochemistry

1967

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

Orthopaedics

c.1919

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

record player

Sound Reproduction

1956

Raytheon Model M-1601 console television receiver

Television

1950

Rolls-Royce Avon 100 Turbine Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1950

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Wall mounted amusement arcade machine

Public Health & Hygiene

1931-1940

Miss Windermere VI Powerboat

Water Transport

1993

Electronic storm surge modelling machine

Oceanography

1960-2007

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890