Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

1990-1997

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

‘Trans-Pac’ GPS receiver, 1990-1991

1990-1991

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Technics SL-1210 Mk2 mode quartz synthesizer direct-drive turntable: one of two

1999

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Pye B16T television receiver

1946-1948

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Navigational Computor Mark III

Electronic storm surge modelling machine made by Shizuo Ishiguro

1960-2007

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Apple 'iPad 2', 2011-2012

2011-2012

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

1940-1945

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye

1862-1863

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond, 18 inch radius with optical sights on tripod

1780-1820

Silver sundial by Humfrey Cole

1568-1590

Brass framed sextant.

1790-1800

Tin, empty, for Cow & Gate Milk Food

circa 1956

Domestic ice cream making machine, about 1880

1880

Triple loop Klein bottle which when cut gives a pair of five-twist Mobius strips

1995

Plaster phrenological bust

1825-1835

Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird, with case

1760-1769

Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)

1832-1851

Mechanical Powers Apparatus consisting of an inclined plane and endless screw

1775-1800

Masterpiece clock from Augsburg, Germany, 1625-1635

1625-1635

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

3D Printed Gun

2013

Arabic celestial globe with meridian and equator on brass stand

1501-1800

Biped robot

1987-1997

Iron model of the joints in a human skeleton, Italy, 1570-1700

1570-1700

Gray-Milne seismograph made by James White

1885

Whitehouse experimental thermograph, c. 1872.

1872

Wilson expansion apparatus

1912-1913

Edison 'Concert' phonograph

1910-1912