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Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Custom-made speech synthesiser for Stephen Hawking

1985-1995

BBC B Micro Computer

circa 1983

Haemoglobin model

1967

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

1953

Pye PTC 2007 radio telephone, 1955-1964

1955-1964

Reporter mobile radiophone, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Incubator used in the development of IVF

1977

Sensecam, made by Microsoft Research Ltd

2004-2010

Thomas Lewis’ electrocardiograph

1930

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

Essay submitted for the Adams Prize by Stephen Hawking, with a geometrical approach to the big bang theory of the universe

1966

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Brian Whitt, titled: Gravity: a quantum theory?

1988

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

1967

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1918-1925

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

1947

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

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

Weight perception apparatus in case

1893

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

Forest of Rods model of myoglobin

1960

Portable electrocardiograph, Cambridge, England, 1946

1946

Sinclair ZX 81 microcomputer, 1981-1985

1981-1985

Chassis and components for SP.160 BQ transistorised radio receiver

1960

Sectioned polyethylene sample of electrofusion welded pipe. The yellow is used for gas pipes

1996

Pye Model 25C Radio

1928-1935

Sliding Filament Model Demonstrating Muscle Action

1988

Pye monochrome television receiver with 'black screen', 1948

1948

Stamp that prints Stephen Hawking's signature

1990-1999

Sinclair Q.L. microcomputer

1984

'Hunt the Higgs' card game

2005

Polymerase Chain Reaction Machine for amplifying DNA, Cambridge, England, 1988

1988

Eyeglasses fitted with analogue infrared sensor

2014

Pye D10 Photicon camera tube

1948-1950

Polaroid Barbie camera

1999

Sign used during the COVID-19 testing process

2020

Sign for hood cleaning at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

Sign relating to laboratory waste at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

Sign relating to laboratory waste at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

Sign for equipment in use at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020