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Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Test tube with arm

Glass test tube

Glass 'test' tube, with a rubber pipe fitting at one end, from Dennstedt's electric combustion furnace

Test tube with graduation mark

Test tubes used at the Common Cold Research Unit, England, c. 1956

1956

Bacteriological preparations from the Pasteur Institute, France, 1888-1985

1888-1985

Test tube set

1901-1940

Test tube with constriction about one quarter-length from the opening

Test tube

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

1875-1878

Wooden test tube block with tubes used for DNA sequencing, Europe, 1960-1977

1960-1977

Test tube with narrowed section in neck

Test tube

Set of six test tubes used by Joseph Lister, United Kingdom, 1875-1878

1875-1878

Specimen bottle for blood for a test for syphilis, England, 1930-1950

1930-1950

Test tube

Thunberg tube

Ungraduated stoppered test tube, c.1900

Ungraduated stoppered test tube

22 Leather test tube caps, c.1900

22 Leather test tube caps

7 glass test tubes, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, by Monax, Scotland, 1930-1940

7 glass test tubes

1930-1940

3 blue capped 50 ml test tubes in a red test tube rack, used for isolating white blood cells for COV002, of the type used during the clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by the Oxford Vaccine Group, the Jenner Institute and the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM)

Test tube and rack used in COVID-19 vaccine trials

2015-2020

Two test tubes, broken, from mahogany medicine chest, England, United Kingdom, 1831-1900

Two test tubes from medicine chest

Large test tube with ground glass stopper c.1900.

Large test tube with ground gl

Corked test tube containing sodium nitroprusside, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, unsigned, 1930-1940

Corked test tube containing sodium nitroprusside

1930-1940

Corked test tube containing potassium oxalate, from the portable laboratory owned by Dr. H.G Butterfield, unsigned, 1930-1940

Corked test tube containing potassium oxalate

1930-1940

Assorted test tubes c. 1922-1923

Assorted test tubes c. 1922-1923

Test tubes with original hand-written labels containing the first chemicals isolated from the human brain, prepared by J. L. W. Thudichum, St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1865-71. Choline platinochloride; lecithin cadmium chloride; phrenosine; kerasine; in perspex display case

Test tubes containing chemicals isolated from the human brain, London, England, 1865-1871

1865-1871

Two test tubes, from mahogany medicine chest, England, United Kingdom, 1831-1900

Two test tubes from medicine chest

Three glass test tubes for wood borer.

Three test tubes for wood sample borer

Two pipettes, four test tubes and tube stand, unsigned, British, 1950-1953 (see Note). Equipment of the type used by Marguerite S. Pereira et al. in 1953, in the explant method of tissue culture to grow a cold virus at the Common Cold Research Unit, Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, Wiltshire, England.

Two pipettes, four tubes and tube stand, used in tissue culture explant method

1950-1953

Two test tubes with red stoppers containing liquid in a sealed Steriking® Wipak with the words written “Embryo culture medium made 2/10/17” and one test tube with a red stopper, containing liquid from Simplified Culture System prototype developed by Jonathan Van Blerkom, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Test tube preparations for Simplified Culture System

2017