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Briefing sheet from Science Museum press event announcing Tim Peake's mission 'Principia' to the International Space Station

2016

Plaster cast of mediaeval corbel in the roof of St. Martin's

1200-1500 (original)

Bromide print of Burrough's adding and listing machine

1925

Blaise pascal

1925

Magnesium Hydride in Sun Spot

1911

Photograph of engraving

1925

Photograph of engraving of "Mathematical Ring"

1925

Photograph of engraving of Napier's Bones

1925

Photograph of exploding meteor, in frame.

1895

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Drawing of curves to be placed under Boys' curve-drawing integrator

1917

Centre-handle graver (from circulation collection)

1970-1975

Dot graver (from the Circulation collection)

1970-1975

Reconstruction of Robert Hooke's waywiser sounder for measuring the depth of the ocean

1977

Model of Ptolomy's triquetrum with perspex glazed cover

1972

Four Photographs of American Atomic Bomb Test

1947; (1946-07-24)

Replica of Cavendish's Eudiometer 1781

1930

Sectioned half-scale model of Eötvös torsion balance

1928

Daily Herald Photograph: Harp making

1949-05-05

Daily Herald Photograph: 10,000th edition of the Daily Herald

1948-03-21

Daily Herald Photograph: 10,000th edition of the Daily Herald

1948-03-21

Daily Herald Photograph: 10,000th edition of the Daily Herald

1948-03-21

Objective lens in brass cell of 3 3/4-inch diameter and 50-inch focal length

1850-1900

Whole model of the screw tug 'Victor'

1884-1885; 1919

Copy of Chinese scene with low relief

1965

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

1903

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Model of the PS 'Sirius'

1935-1937

Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus for the artificial disintegration of the elements by swift protons

1928-1932

Drawing of suspension for Foucault's pendulum (1) Foucault's method (2) Science Museum

1917

Contemporary model of extensions to Chatham Dockyard (1870)

1862-1877; 1965; 1965

Eight photographs showing the July 1945 New Mexico atomic bomb explosion test

1945-1947

Model, of a cycloid form paddle wheel, based on Joshua Field's initial ideas and Elijah Galloway's later patent

1897-1898

Black and white cloud track photographic print, showing the artificial disintegration of lithium by high-speed protons

1933-1937

Black and white photographic print, showing the production of a pair of electrons, positive and negative

1934-1937

Four Photographs of American Atomic Bomb Test

1947; (1946-07-24)

Four Photographs of American Atomic Bomb Test

1947; (1946-07-24)

Perspex model of a house, showing electrical ring main system

1957

St Augustine in his Cell

1964

Good Government

1964

Working scale model of the 1827 Goldsworthy Gurney steam coach

1958

Part sectioned wood model

1881-1903

Wood part-sectioned model J. Dickinson's patent crankshaft

1881-1903

Robot art: Bamboo by The Dancing Lion (Komatsu RAL 10 robot), 1991

1991

Robot art: Chrysanthemum by The Dancing Lion (Komatsu RAL 10 robot), 1991

1991

Robot art: Portrait by a 'Portrait Drawing Robot' created by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd (Panasonic), 1991

1991

Robot art: Portrait by a 'Portrait Drawing Robot' created by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd (Panasonic), 1991

1991

Diagram of Robert Andrews Millikan's method of measuring the charge on the electron

1945-1948

Stereoscopic pair of cloud-track photographs showing the passage of an X-ray beam through a copper target

1937-1948