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Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

Biochemistry

1953

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Bush TV22 Television Receiver, 1945-1955

Radio Communication

1945-1955

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

Biotechnology

1945

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Contraceptive sponge

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1920-1960

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1930-1960

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Amulet brooch in the shape of a black cat

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1914-1918

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

Kodak Brownie 8 8mm movie camera

Cinematography

1960-1962

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

Space Technology

1969

EMI CT brain scanner

Radiomedicine

1970-1971

Spirit of the Southern

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1969, about

Vodafone 'Transportable' mobile telephone, 1985

Telecommunications

1985

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Boyle-type anaesthetic machine

Anaesthesiology

1955-1965

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

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1970

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Medresco portable hearing aid

Audiology

1953

Kodak Automatic 8 Movie Camera and carton box

Cinematography

1962

Automaton for Health Matters Gallery

Public Health & Hygiene

1994

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

Therapeutics

1840-1900

Iron Baby

Antony Gormley

1999

Two boxes of ‘Distaval Forte’ thalidomide tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1958-1962

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

Telecommunications

1997

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

Public Health & Hygiene

1923

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Copy of a 1600s wooden leper clapper, England

Public Health & Hygiene

Unknown

Molecular model showing the structure of insulin

Biotechnology

1967

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

Domestic Appliances

1953-1958

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

Orthopaedics

c.1919

Rubber mouth gag

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1990

Model of a mobile mass miniature x-ray unit

Radiomedicine

1945-1965

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

Telecommunications

1925-1935

Replica apparatus for the extraction and purification of penicillin

Biotechnology

1986

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896