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Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

Public Health & Hygiene

1923

Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

Biochemistry

1953

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Government AIDS awareness leaflet

Public Health & Hygiene

1986-1987

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

Radio Communication

1945-1955

Dr Who spaceship

Space Technology

1980

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

Biotechnology

1945

Hand brand, for use on felons or deserters, England, 1642-1649

Wellcome (general)

1642-1649

Contraceptive sponge

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1920-1960

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit (21-7-69). First moon l

Space Technology

1969

Swan necked glass retort

Medical Glass-ware

1760-1870

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

Lead mortuary crosses, England, 1300s and 1600s

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1601-1700

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Metal lice comb, 'Derbac' brand, England, 1930-1940

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Kodak Brownie 8 8mm movie camera

Cinematography

1960-1962

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Vodafone 'Transportable' mobile telephone, 1985

Telecommunications

1985

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

Therapeutics

1840-1900

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Iron Baby

Antony Gormley

1999

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Canvas straitjacket for adults, London, England, 1930-1960

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1930-1960

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

Weighing & Measuring

1588

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

EMI CT brain scanner

Radiomedicine

1970-1971

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

Telecommunications

1997

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Keep Mrs. Dawson busy. Use a condom

Public Health & Hygiene

1986-1990

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

Orthopaedics

c.1919

Two boxes of ‘Distaval Forte’ thalidomide tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1958-1962

Boxes of Fennings' Little Healers, England, 1940-1970

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1970

Model of the Post Office Tower, 2014

Telecommunications

2014

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Spirit of the Southern

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1969, about

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

Domestic Appliances

1953-1958

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945