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Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

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

1953

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

1948-1953

Incubator used in the development of IVF

1977

Pye PTC 2007 radio telephone, 1955-1964

1955-1964

Reporter mobile radiophone, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Haemoglobin model

1967

BBC B Micro Computer

circa 1983

Sensecam, made by Microsoft Research Ltd

2004-2010

Thomas Lewis’ electrocardiograph

1930

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Essay submitted for the Adams Prize by Hawking's friend Jayant Narlikar using a Machian approach to explain the steady-state theory of the universe

1966

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

1967

Custom-made speech synthesiser for Stephen Hawking

1985-1995

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

1947

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Cockroft and Walton's Accelerator

1932

Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun

1872

Colour print showing three sketches of craters on the Moon

1872

Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot

1872

Mini bag RR250 made from recycled rubber tyre inner tubes

1996

Wallet RR100 made from recycled rubber tyre inner tubes

1996

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

1870

Stephen Hawking's first book, co-authored with George Ellis

1974

Stephen Hawking's first book, co-authored with George Ellis

1979

Book with debate on consciousness with participation by Roger Penrose, including commentary by Stephen Hawking (figure captions of draft version)

1995

Book with debate on consciousness with participation by Roger Penrose, including commentary by Stephen Hawking (draft version)

1995

Handbook with new methods for General Relativity developed by Roger Penrose and Wolfgang Rindler

1984

Book with debate on consciousness with participation by Roger Penrose, with commentary by Stephen Hawking

1997

View of Pye Engineering Services Ltd building

1940s

Portrait of C.O. Stanley

circa 1930s

Aerial view of W.G. Pye factory

1940s

Pye Engineering Services Ltd. banquet

1950s

Scientific Publication: ‘The Quantum Mechanics of the Universe’

1984

Microtome and knife by Unicam Instruments Ltd

1948

Sir W. Napier Shaw's original anemenoidograph

1918

Lindemann electrometer

1930-1950

Glass discharge tube, for Aston's original mass spectrograph

1919

ARM1 microchip with cover

1985

Stamp that prints Stephen Hawking's signature

1990-1999

Effervescent Caffeine

1925-1960

“Cherry picker layout” for use with a Biomek robot at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

Instructions for a microplate dispenser used at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

“Cherry picker layout” for use with a Biomek robot at a COVID-19 testing centre

2020

Sign used during the COVID-19 testing process

2020

Sign used during the COVID-19 testing process

2020

Sign used during the COVID-19 testing process

2020

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

2020