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Milton Roy kidney machine

Therapeutics

1961-1971

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

'Mobaltron 1000’ radiotherapy machine

Radiomedicine

1960-1970

Plaque in Arabic, associated with Unani Tibb medical practices, England, 2004-2005

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2004-2005

Radio, British Rail, GEC, curved front, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Radio, ex Montgomery's saloon which formed part of a train for his use pending invasion of Europe, 1944.

radio - ex montgomery saloon

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Saba 'Jim Nature' portable television receiver

Television

1994

'La Multi' calculator, c 1920.

Mathematics

1918-1922

Richmond Educational Spelling Board, a teaching game

Mathematics

1940-1945

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48, inscribed: ‘M. O. 13 / 48’

Meteorology

'Laserline' laser alignment levelling instrument

Nuclear Physics

1971

Architect's model of Vauxhall Cross, sitting on formica stand on oak base, unsigned, England, c. 1988. Model constructed for Terry Farrell & Partners, British.

Architect's model of Vauxhall Cross, for Terry Farrell & Partners

Building Construction

c. 1988

Wooden base with stands for eight Thomson atom models

Nuclear Physics

1960-1961

Owens Dust Counter, no.44, by Casella, London, in

Meteorology

1960-1969

Aitken's portable dust counter, No.116, M O 1A, in wooden case

Meteorology

Radiographic print using uranium nitrate crystals.

Nuclear Physics

1960-1970

Quartz fibre electrometer and charging unit

Nuclear Physics

1945-1955

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory

Nuclear Physics

1945-1955

Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle

Meteorology

Murphy model A124 radio receiver, by Murphy Radio

Radio Communication

1948-1952

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Meteorology

One lead "brick" for building screen walls round r

Nuclear Physics

1960-1965

One handheld "mask" type stereoscopic viewer

Experimental Chemistry

1930-1970

M.O. Bibby recorder Mark II, Met Ref 985, MO 3/49,

Meteorology

Radio, British Rail, Pye, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

M.O. Bibby recorder Mark II, Met Ref No 985, MO 54

Meteorology

Murphy model A104 radio receiver, by Murphy Radio

Radio Communication

1944-1948

Variable focus model eye, made by Philip Harris Lt

Science Teaching

1983

Case of Gamma-ray sterilised items

Nuclear Physics

1960-1970

Model railway signalbox, 1:24 scale, Great Northern Railway type, "Three Counties", by Philip Veale, Sussex, 1975.

model great northern railway type signalbox

Railway Models

1975

Model, railway engine shed, 'O' gauge, builder unknown, c. 1980.

Model, railway engine shed, 'O' gauge, builder unknown, c. 1

Railway Models

1980

Model of new Main Entrance building, National Railway Museum, scale 1:100, showing South Hall/North Hall link, designed by Robin Wade & Pat Read, Twickenham, 1990, opened 1992.

Model of new Main Entrance building, National Railway Museum

Railway Models

Model, railway signalman's hut, 'O' gauge, builder unknown, c. 1980.

Model, railway signalman's hut, 'O' gauge, builder unknown,

Railway Models

1980

Model, railway unloading bay, 'O' gauge, builder unknown, c. 1980.

Model, railway unloading bay, 'O' gauge, builder unknown, c.

Railway Models

1980

Parts from a Butcher's Empire Cinematograph Model A. Handcrank with with wooden handle; white metal plate; two parts of broken blade of Maltese Cross.

Parts From Butcher's Empire Cinematograph Model A

Cinematography

25.5 x 20.3cm black enamel board glazing sheet.

glazing sheet

Photographic Technology

International Children's Day poster from Mozambique, 1975-1979

International Children's Day poster

Public Health & Hygiene

1975-1979

Model suspension bridge to demonstrate parabolic shape of main cables

Model suspension bridge to demonstrate parabolic s

Mathematics

1973-1976

Brent Community Health Council Annual Report 1978-9

Public Health & Hygiene

1978-1979

One of 2 dark green linen hospital drapes used in operating theatres, by A. W. Bent, Bude, Cornwall, 1994. Attached to MDF wooden board by metal straps with stainless eyes, with 5 surgical instruments sewn to the drape as follows:- 1994-71 pt1 - Potts clamp; 1994-71 pt2 - Satinsky Anastomosis clamp; 1994-71 pt3 - Robert's artery forceps; 1994-71 pt4 - Lebsche Sternum shears; 1994-71 pt5 - De Bakey aortic aneurism clamp.

Operating Theatre Hospital Drape

Surgery

1994

Vintage silver gelatin print mounted on board. The photograph is entitled 'Ramsgate' by Tony Ray-Jones, 1968. The print is pasted onto board, and was displayed at the exhibition of Tony ray-Jones' work at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London in 1969.

Ramsgate

Photographs

1968

Clement's Ellipsograph in decorated box

Mathematics

Replica of the Haber-Bosch process pressure mantle (/1) original used for synthesing ammonia c1920

Replica of the Haber-Bosch process pressure mantle, original used for synthesing ammonia, c1920

Industrial Chemistry

1986

Demonstration animated model of a Bohr-Rutherford Neon Atom, made by the Science Museum workshops for the Circulation Collection of touring exhibits, 1960-1969

Animated model of a Bohr-Rutherford Neon Atom

Nuclear Physics

1960-1969

Part of Met Office Mark I radiosonde, 1940-1945

Part of Met Office Mark I radiosonde

Meteorology

1940-1945

Coloured plan and section drawing, pen and ink, of Bailey's dry vacuum pump (scale 1:2), made at the Science Museum, 1925.

Coloured plan and section drawing, pen and ink, of

Vacuum Technology

1925

Large scale collage by Heidi Crabbe titled 196, illustrating 196 different photographic cameras, 2001. Four panels consisting of 49 images on each. Exhibited at Staffordshire University as part of the 2001 technician show.

196

Photographic Technology

2001

Display board, for illustrating eighteen 'Oakaloy' cemented tungsten carbide cutting tools, twelve cemented tungsten carbide ‘sintered tips’ and a steel finished ‘morse taper lathe centre No.3’, by Lenchs Ltd., Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1954. The cutting, or boring tools were originally laid out on the display board to illustrate steel manufacturing processes.

Display board, for illustrating 'Oakaloy' cemented tungsten carbide cutting tools and ‘sintered tips’, illustrating steel manufacturing processes

Hand and Machine Tools

1954

Pye vision-only 5 inch television receiver, model 817, by Pye Limited, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, 1938. Restored to working order in 1980.

Pye Vision-only 5 inch television receiver

Radio Communication

1938

Blackboard, unsigned, British, 1945-1953. Used for entering details of volunteers' bookings for trials, from the Administrators office, Common Cold Research Unit, Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, Wiltshire, England.

Blackboard for entering volunteers' bookings

Public Health & Hygiene

1945-1953