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Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

Road Transport

c. 1900

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Full-size replica of British Railways 'Duke of Gloucester' cab

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 3rd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

artificial eyes

Ophthalmology

1901-1950

Replica of Torricelli's first barometer, 1643.

Meteorology

1643

Painted resin fibreglass model, cast from original mould by Ray Harryhausen of creature from `Jason & The Argonauts' (1963): Talos. This model, in resin and fibreglass, was made from the same mould as the original, which was cast in latex around a metal armature.

Fibreglass model of 'Talos'

Cinematography

1997-1998

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

Navigation

1580-1588; 1930

Chadwick's neutron detector

Nuclear Physics

1932

Bergman's mouth blowpipe, 1760-1784

Experimental Chemistry

1760-1784

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Copy of Rudge Phantascope Projector

Cinematography

1930 (1884)

Resin casts of Wallace and Gromit in motorcycle sidecar combination, made from the original model by Aardman Animations Ltd in 1999. Original model featured in Aardman animated film 'A Close Shave', 1995.

Model motorcycle and sidecar used in animated film 'A Close Shave', 1995

Cinematography

1992-2002

Copy of 1866 Dallmeyer collodion carte-de-visite camera. Stand also replica. Made by Science Museum workshops.NOTE ScM Inv.No.1920-613 used with Shepherd lens, PHL1456.

Replica of 1866 Dallmeyer carte-de-visite camera

Photographic Technology

1983 (replica); 1866 (original)

Portable reflex replica of Fox Talbot's Camera Obscura, original c 1800.

Replica of Fox Talbot's Camera Obscura, c1800

Photographic Technology

1795-1805 (original)

Replica of 'Frog' Clinical thermometer, 1651-1700

Heat

1651-1700 (original)

Painted resin fibreglass model, cast from original mould by Ray Harryhausen of creature from `One Million Years BC' (1966): Allosaurus. This model, in resin and fibreglass, was made from the same mould as the original, which was cast in latex around a metal armature.

Fiberglass model Allosaurus

Cinematography

1997-1998

Replica of Phipps and Irving insulated water bottle of 1773

Oceanography

1773 (original)

Replica of the first Wright Aeroplane, 1903, by The de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, Hatfield, Hertforshire, England, 1948

Replica of the first Wright Aeroplane

Aeronautics

1948

Replica of Cavendish's Eudiometer 1781

Experimental Chemistry

1930

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

Astronomy

1066; 1876

Model of Cherubin d'Orleans compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1917

Replica of Rutherford's apparatus for investigatio

Nuclear Physics

European astrolabe by Arsenius, 1566

Astronomy

1566; 1876

Replica R.H. Goddard (March 16th 1926) liquid-fuel rocket and launch frame

Replica R.H. Goddard liquid-fuel rocket and launch frame

Space Technology

Plaster oculist's seal, inscribed on four edges, c

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Plaster copy of oculist's seal with inscriptions

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1870-1920

Plaster seal, inscribed on two edges, copy, Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Plaster seal, inscribed on four edges, copy, Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Plaster cast copy of an oculist's seal, with inscr

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Metal copy of Roman forceps, Herculanensis

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1851-1925

Fenestrated probe, brass copy of Roman original

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1910-1920

Roman liquid measure, vase shape, replica, on mahogany stand, one of four

Weighing & Measuring

1870-1876

Metal copy of bronze forceps

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1850-1930

Metal copy of elevator(?) or single blade

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1851-1929

Plaster cast copy of an oculist's seal, with inscr

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Copy of forceps, iron

Surgery

Plaster cast copy of an oculist's seal, with an in

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Lamp filler or infant feeder, possibly a copy

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

Copy of head of Egyptian sacred bull

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1930-1937

Replica of an electroscope (c. 1900) used by Ernest Rutherford for his experiments on alpha rays

Nuclear Physics

1964-1974

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

Heat

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Copy of forceps found at Saalburg, original Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1925

Copy Roman forceps

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1900-1930

Plaster seal, inscribed on four edges, Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Copy of bronze forceps, original Graeco-Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1850-1935

Forceps, bronze, copy of Roman(?) original, Europe

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1851-1935

Plaster seal, inscribed on three edges, copy

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Plaster cast copy of an oculist's seal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Metal copy of Graeco-Roman bronze forceps

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1851-1935