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Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

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

1953

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

BBC B Micro Computer

circa 1983

Incubator used in the development of IVF

1977

Pye PTC 2007 radio telephone, 1955-1964

1955-1964

Reporter mobile radiophone, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Haemoglobin model

1967

Sensecam, made by Microsoft Research Ltd

2004-2010

Thomas Lewis’ electrocardiograph

1930

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

1967

Custom-made speech synthesiser for Stephen Hawking

1985-1995

Essay submitted for the Adams Prize by Hawking's friend Jayant Narlikar using a Machian approach to explain the steady-state theory of the universe

1966

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

1947

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun

1872

Colour print showing three sketches of craters on the Moon

1872

Mini bag RR250 made from recycled rubber tyre inner tubes

1996

Wallet RR100 made from recycled rubber tyre inner tubes

1996

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

1870

Polaroid SX-70 Camera

1975

Colour print showing solar prominences

1872

Daily Herald Photograph: A Ram at Royal Agricultural Show

1951-07-04

Transistor car radio

circa 1960

H.G. Wells at British Association Meeting

18 August 1938

H.G. Wells at British Association Meeting

18 August 1938

Sinclair ZX 81 microcomputer, 1981-1985

1981-1985

Radio receiver and components consisting of a) Pam 710 receiver complete

1960

Portable electrocardiograph machine

1929

Gold plated BBC Micro personal computer

1985

Quantum Mechanics

1926

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

4-channel EEG recorder with attached electrodes

2009-2010

Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot

1872

Portable electrocardiograph, Cambridge, England, 1946

1946

Polaroid Barbie camera

1999

Cavendish Research

1928

Reading microscope with slide

1880-1885

Resistance box

1912

Resistance box no.31445

Suspended-coil pointer galvanometer

Universal shunt

Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

1955

Duddell Thermo-galvanometer

1911

Duddell vibration galvanometer

1916

Yule Harmonic analyser made by Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd. Pat. No. 14928

1890-1894