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Material
Date

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

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

1999

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

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

1832-1851

‘Trans-Pac’ GPS receiver, 1990-1991

1990-1991

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

1990-1997

Pye B16T television receiver

1946-1948

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Navigational Computor Mark III

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Apple 'iPad 2', 2011-2012

2011-2012

Electronic storm surge modelling machine made by Shizuo Ishiguro

1960-2007

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Plaster phrenological bust

1825-1835

Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird, with case

1760-1769

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

1995

Domestic ice cream making machine, about 1880

1880

Tin, empty, for Cow & Gate Milk Food

circa 1956

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Mechanical Powers Apparatus consisting of an inclined plane and endless screw

1775-1800

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

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

1780-1820

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

1738

Silver sundial by Humfrey Cole

1568-1590

Brass framed sextant.

1790-1800

Moon globe by John Russell, 1797

1797-1805

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

1940-1945

Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun (deactivated)

1911-1950

Educational toy

1851-1900

Whitehouse experimental thermograph, c. 1872.

1872

Wilson expansion apparatus

1912-1913

Edison 'Concert' phonograph

1910-1912

Spooner's Perspective View of The Interior of the Crystal Palace and Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851

1851

Masterpiece clock from Augsburg, Germany, 1625-1635

1625-1635

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

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

1862-1863

Electron capture detector for gas chromatograph

1955-1965