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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model

Biochemistry

1953

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Analogue music synthesizer.

Acoustics

1970

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1599

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Pye B16T television receiver

Television

1946-1948

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

Nuclear Physics

1935-1945

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

‘Trans-Pac’ GPS receiver, 1990-1991

Surveying

1990-1991

Electronic storm surge modelling machine

Oceanography

1960-2007

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

Astronomy

1554

Technics SL-1210 Mk2 mode quartz synthesizer direct-drive turntable: one of two

Sound Reproduction

1999

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Vodafone 'Transportable' mobile telephone, 1985

Telecommunications

1985

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

Biotechnology

1990-1997

Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)

Marine Engines

1832-1851

Apple 'iPad 2', 2011-2012

Computing & Data Processing

2011-2012

Navigational Computor Mark III

Mathematics

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Electron capture detector for gas chromatograph

Experimental Chemistry

1955-1965
Hoover 'Keymatic' model 3224 washing machine, designed and developed by Hoover Limited engineering laboratories, Perivale, Middlesex, and made by Hoover (Washing Machines) Limited, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, with motors made at Hoover (Electric Motors) Limited, Cambuslang, Scotland, 1963

Hoover 'Keymatic' washing machine

Domestic Appliances

1963

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Biped robot

Human Robotics

1987-1997

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Iron model of the joints in a human skeleton, Italy, 1570-1700

Therapeutics

1570-1700

3D printed gun

Computing & Data Processing

2013
One teapot in white and gold porcelain, 4" x 6". Obverse: Charles & Robert balloon in gold inscribed "Bon Voyage". Reverse, balloon with rudders, inscribed "Sic Itur Ad Astra".

Teapot illustrated with a ballooning scene, late 18th century.

Penn-Gaskell Collection

1783-1810

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

Experimental Chemistry

1925; 1862

Gray-Milne seismograph made by James White

Geophysics

1885

Educational toy

Science Teaching

1851-1900

Silver sundial by Humfrey Cole

Time Measurement

1568-1590

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Triple loop Klein bottle which when cut gives a pair of five-twist Mobius strips

Mathematics

1995

Edison 'Concert' phonograph

Sound Reproduction

1910-1912

Tin, empty, for Cow & Gate Milk Food

Domestic Appliances

circa 1956

Whitehouse experimental thermograph, c. 1872.

Meteorology

1872

Brass framed sextant.

Navigation

1790-1800