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Replica of the first transistor, 1947-2003

1947-2003

Set of 32 BASF computer diskettes containing Version 5.0 (Sweden) of CHEMDATA

1988

Red Telephone - the special line reserved for incoming emergency calls from the Fire Brigade

1974-1991

CHEMDATA User's reference guide for Version 6.0

1990

White cotton coverall with popstud fastenings

1974-1990

Flame-retardant Nomex trousers

1974-1990

Flame-retardant Nomex undershirt

1974-1990

Flashing blue light with magnetic attachment

1974-1989

Radiation detector using point contact transistors designed and built at Harwell

1952-1953

NCEC Duty Officer Car Park place notice 1974 -1990

1974-1990

Duty officer armband

1974-1990

Photograph showing the Harwell cyclotron

1951

Duty Officer's Manual

1976

Quadrant of Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (ZETA) nuclear fusion experiment

1957

Thermoluminescent dosimeter for radiographers, yellow plastic, with spare PTFE-lithium fluoride discs, by the N.R.P.B., Harwell, 1980

Thermoluminescent dosimeter for radiographers

1980

MinION Flow Cell for use with a portable MinION analyzer for sequencing DNA or RNA in real time, with packaging, by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, as used during genetic sequencing of samples at the Royal London Hospital by the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK), a group of public health agencies and academic institutions created in April 2020 to collect, sequence and analyse genomes of SARS-CoV-2 as part of COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020-22.

flow cell

2020-2021

Model of phased-rotor neutron spectrometer installed at Chalk River, Canada in 1958, built at Harwell c. 1963

Model of phased-rotor neutron spectrometer installed at Chalk River

1963

'Cold Fusion' ,apparatus used at Harwell laboratories in 1989 to replicate experiments of Fleschmann and Pons. The apparatus consists of a electrolysis apparatus (glass flask) containing a palladium electrode.

'Cold Fusion' apparatus, Harwell

1989

Photomultiplier tube detector in metal housing housing (type 1529C, serial No, 359), with thallium scintillation crystal by Hilger and Watts Limited, British, 1960-1975. Commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell

Photomultiplier housing type 1529C

1960-1975