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Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

2008 (prototype)

Long-wavelength spectrometer from the Infrared Space Observatory (identical spare model)

1990-1993 (spare); 1995 (original launched)

SEC vidicon camera tube - identical to one used in IUE (international ultra-violet explorer) satellite

1972

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Sample radio receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell sub-millimetre radio telescope, 1986

1986

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Section of Vacuum Vessel from the Particle Accelerator Nimrod, 1964

1964

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980

Sample segment panel for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), 1986

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

National Radiation Protection Board household radiation survey kit in cardboard transit carton addressed to Mr & Mrs P.J. Smith, 1982. Consists of 5 sample containers (x2 bedroom, x2 living room & postal monitor), various square plastic sample plates and two plastic bags

NRPB household radiation survey kit, 1982

1982

Bubble chamber photograph in glazed frame mounted with diagram of an atom track showing lambda minus event, unsigned, 1955-1968. Supplied by the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (Bubble Chamber Group), Chilton, Didcot, England

Bubble chamber photograph of a lambda minus event

1953-1968

One of three film badge radiation dose monitors used to measure the radiation doses of people working with radioactive materials. The exposure is calculated by measuring the darkening of the film inside the monitor after it is developed.

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980

Three exposed film samples for radiation dose monitors used to measure the radiation doses of people working with radioactive materials

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980