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Watt's Parallel Motion, 1784

Motive Power

1784 (original); 1986 (model)

Replica Cockpit of Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy aircraft, 1919.

Aeronautics

1919

Working model, scale 1:12, of John Rapson's patented slide steering gear (c.1839), displayed on a structural model of a 'Formidable' class battleship, by Science Museum Workshops, South Kensington, London, England, 1890-1908

Model of John Rapson's slide steering gear

Marine Engines

1890-1908

Scale model, (scale 1:6), of Su Sung's astronomical clock-tower water-balance escapement, originally used in 1088. Model made in 1965.

Scale model of Su Sung's Water-Balance Escapement

Time Measurement

1965

Model, scale 1:6, of John Dickinson's cylinder paper making machine of 1809, model made by Science Museum, Workshops, South Kensington, London, England, 1984

Model of Cylinder mould paper-making machine

Papermaking

1809; 1984

Model of Ptolemaic (heliocentric) System of Universe (from Circulation collection)

Orrery planetary display model by Science Museum, 1973

Astronomy

1973

Drawing to be placed under Amsler's planimeter

Mathematics

1915

Diagram showing a nocturnal in use, South Kensington, London, England, 1937. These instruments were used to find the time at night using the 'pointers' of the Great Bear or the Little Bear.

Diagram Showing a Nocturnal in Use, Science Museum, 1937

Time Measurement

1937

Model of Copernican System (from Circulation collection)

Orrery planetary display model by Science Museum, 1973

Astronomy

1973

12 pairs of monthly star diagrams, each in glazed frame (light size for each frame 18 1/2" x25 1/4")

12 pairs of monthly star diagrams, each in glazed

Astronomy

Model, scale 1:16, of an American paddle wheel river steamer vessel beam engine (c.1884), with sectioned hull and superstructure, with pencil drawing, one of 3 or 4, of an American beam paddle engine 1884-1896 and parts of feet consisting of 2 cylindrical, and 12 square sections, by Science Museum Workshops, South Kensington, London, England, 1906

Model of an American paddle wheel river steamer vessel beam engine

Marine Engines

1906

Robot art : one of six drawings by robots, made during the 'Robotics Japan: Robot Technology - Past, Present and Future' exhibition held at the Science Museum 17 September - 31 October 1991. Comprising one of two portraits drawn by a 'Portrait Drawing Robot', created by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd (Panasonic), 1991, signed Panasonic.

Robot art: Portrait by a 'Portrait Drawing Robot' created by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd (Panasonic), 1991

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

1991

A black and white photograph entitled 'Swing When You're Winning: Lloyd Honeyghan lunges and Maurice Blocker looks for a way out during their title fight at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night', taken by David Ashdown in 1987. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Photographs from the Independent Newspaper'.

Swing When You're Winning...

Photographs

1987

Drawing (12" x 10") to be placed under Boys' polar planimeter

Drawing (12" x 10") to be placed under Boys' polar

Mathematics

1915

Drawing to be placed under Drysdale's Peaucellier linkage

Drawing to be placed under Drysdale's Peaucellier

Mathematics

1915

Panel showing proof that there are 5 Platonic solids

Panel showing proof that there are 5 Platonic soli

Mathematics

1975

Bromide print of original model of Kelvin's tide-predicting machine (inv. no. 1881-12)

Bromide print of original model of Kelvin's tide-p

Mathematics

1925

Photograph of engraved portrait of Leibniz

Leibniz

Mathematics

1925

12" x 10" bromide print of "Archimedes" calculating machine

12" x 10" bromide print of "Archimedes" calculatin

Mathematics

1925

Selection of thirty rods for two sets Genaille's rods with supporting board and box made in the Science Museum Workshops.

Rods for two sets of Genaille's rods

Mathematics

1925

Coloured diagram showing arrangement for exhausting a large wireless valve, by Science Museum Drawing Office, South Kensington, London, 1927. A Herbert McLeod vacuum gauge is shown for measuring pressure.

Coloured diagram showing arrangement for exhausting a large wireless valve

Vacuum Technology

1927

Working model to demonstrate the principle of the jacquard mechanism

Working model to demonstrate the principle of the

Textiles Machinery

1961

Plan of site of Rainhill locomotive trials, 1829. (Scale 6" to 1 mile)

Plan of site of Rainhill locomotive trials, 1829.

Railways

1929

Perspex model to explain 3-dimensional Cartesian Coordinates

Perspex model to explain 3-dimensional Cartesian C

Mathematics

1975

Wire model showing orbit of Earth and two comets

Mathematics

1975

Photograph of Rowning's instrument for solving equations, from "Philosophical Transactions" LX (1770) p.240

Photograph of Rowning's instrument for solving equ

Mathematics

1925

Photograph of Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1925

Working model of a Leibniz stepped reckoner

Mathematics

1937

Section 6 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part, tapering overall from 0.10m to 2.16m, of a horn loudspeaker made to the same internal dimensions as the Science Museum logarithmic or exponential loudspeaker designed by R P G Denman in 1929, British, 2013

Section 6 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part of a horn loudspeaker

Sound Reproduction

2013

Model illustrating William Henry Bragg's Law of Relection of X-rays from crystal planes, with detachable rotating arm carrying a wire view-finder and interchangeable wooden board painted white lines, unsigned, by Science Museum, Workshops, South Kensington, London, 1947

Model illustrating Bragg's Law of Relection of X-rays from crystal planes

Nuclear Physics

1947

Oil on canvas, painting of the Solar Spectrum / C M Simpson, 4'6 1/4"x4 3/8". In preparing this representation of the visible portion of the Solar Spectrum, Miss Simpson used the solar spectroscope at the Observatory of William Alfred Parr (1865-1936), FRAS at St Albans. The colours are rendered as faithfully as possible, and the position of the Fraunhofer absorption lines are indicated. Parr used a 4-inch Cooke equatorial to which was attached a 2-prism Evershed spectroscope made for him by Adam Hilger, Ltd in his Observatory, 1926-1936.

Solar Spectrum

Astronomy

c. 1931

Alloy of zinc and antimony, made by Professor Josiah Cooke, Junior, of Harvard College, Cambridge, U.S.A., in the laboratory of the Royal School of Mines

Alloy of zinc and antimony, made by Professor Josi

Metallurgy

before 1889

Coloured drawing of Parsons Rotary Steam Engine, 1884, scale 1:8 (from drawing 1935-205 presented by Col. Kitson Clark)

Coloured drawing of Parsons' Rotary Steam Engine

Motive Power

1884; c. 1935

Model, scale 1:48, of a water powered Astronomical Clock-Tower, Science Museum, South Kensington, London, England, 1965. The original was built on the initiative of Su Song in 1088 and described in print in 1172.

Model of a Chinese Astronomical Clock-Tower, 1965

Time Measurement

1965

Drawing to be placed under Amsler's integrator (size 12 1/2" x 22 1/2")

Drawing to be placed under Amsler's integrator (si

Mathematics

1915

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

Drawing of Sang's planometer, 1851; size of border line 11 3/4 " x 6 7/8"

Drawing of Sang's planometer, 1851; size of border

Mathematics

1924

Drawing to be exhibited with Galton's original model of the trace computer (inv. no. 1876-505), size 14" x 6 1/2"

Drawing to be exhibited with Galton's original mod

Mathematics

1915

Model of Ptolomy's triquetrum with perspex glazed cover, 1972.

Model of Ptolomy's triquetrum with perspex glazed

Astronomy

1972

Three photographs of ruled surfaces

Mathematics

1872

Working model of a Leibniz stepped reckoner

Mathematics

1937

Drawing to be placed under Henrici's Harmonic analyser, size 15" x 24 3/4"

Drawing to be placed under Henrici's Harmonic anal

Mathematics

1915

Photograph of Oughtred's "Circle of Proportion", from "The Circle of Proportion and the Horizontal Instrument" by William Oughtred, 1632

Photograph "Circle of Proportion"

Mathematics

1915

Section 1 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part, tapering overall from 0.10m to 2.16m, of a horn loudspeaker made to the same internal dimensions as the Science Museum logarithmic or exponential loudspeaker designed by R P G Denman in 1929, British, 2013

Section 1 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part of a horn loudspeaker

Sound Reproduction

2013

Section 5 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part, tapering overall from 0.10m to 2.16m, of a horn loudspeaker made to the same internal dimensions as the Science Museum logarithmic or exponential loudspeaker designed by R P G Denman in 1929, British, 2013

Section 5 of six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part of a horn loudspeaker

Sound Reproduction

2013

Circular ashtray moulded from mottled dark brown phenolic at the Science Museum, for the Plastics Industry Exhibition, 1933

Circular ashtray

SCM

1933

Four transparencies, size 12" x 10", showing the test underwater atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll on 24th July 1946. (from negatives lent by Photographic Library, U.S. Bureau of Information, American Embassy, 33 Davies Street, W.1

Four transparencies, size 12" x 10", showing the t

Nuclear Physics

1947

Photo print of Barrett adding machine, c. 1915

Mathematics

1925

Bromide print of Kelvin's tide-predicting machine (inv. no. 1876-1129)

Bromide print of Kelvin's tide-predicting machine

Mathematics

1925

Bromide print of the second model of a tide-predicting machine (inv. no. 1881-135)

Bromide print of the second model of a tide-predic

Mathematics

1925