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Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

2008 (prototype)

Long-wavelength spectrometer from the Infrared Space Observatory (identical spare model)

1990-1993 (spare); 1995 (original launched)

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Sample radio receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell sub-millimetre radio telescope, 1986

1986

SEC vidicon camera tube - identical to one used in IUE (international ultra-violet explorer) satellite

1972

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980

Section of Vacuum Vessel from the Particle Accelerator Nimrod, 1964

1964

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986
Bubble chamber photograph in glazed frame mounted with diagram of an atom track showing lambda minus event, unsigned, 1955-1968. Supplied by the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (Bubble Chamber Group), Chilton, Didcot, England

Bubble chamber photograph of a lambda minus event

1953-1968
Sample segment panel for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), 1986

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986
National Radiation Protection Board household radiation survey kit in cardboard transit carton addressed to Mr & Mrs P.J. Smith, 1982. Consists of 5 sample containers (x2 bedroom, x2 living room & postal monitor), various square plastic sample plates and two plastic bags

NRPB household radiation survey kit, 1982

1982
One of three film badge radiation dose monitors used to measure the radiation doses of people working with radioactive materials. The exposure is calculated by measuring the darkening of the film inside the monitor after it is developed.

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980
Three exposed film samples for radiation dose monitors used to measure the radiation doses of people working with radioactive materials

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980