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

1999

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

1990-1997

Pye B16T television receiver

1946-1948

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

‘Trans-Pac’ GPS receiver, 1990-1991

1990-1991

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

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

1832-1851

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Navigational Computor Mark III

Apple 'iPad 2', 2011-2012

2011-2012

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Electronic storm surge modelling machine made by Shizuo Ishiguro

1960-2007

Plaster phrenological bust

1825-1835

Tin, empty, for Cow & Gate Milk Food

circa 1956

Domestic ice cream making machine, about 1880

1880

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond, 18 inch radius with optical sights on tripod

1780-1820

Brass framed sextant.

1790-1800

Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird, with case

1760-1769

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Mechanical Powers Apparatus consisting of an inclined plane and endless screw

1775-1800

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Silver sundial by Humfrey Cole

1568-1590

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

1995

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

1738

Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun (deactivated)

1911-1950

3D Printed Gun

2013

Gray-Milne seismograph made by James White

1885

Whitehouse experimental thermograph, c. 1872.

1872

Chinese 'South-pointing' chariot

1945-1952

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Wilson expansion apparatus

1912-1913

Tri-unial magic lantern

1880

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

Electron capture detector for gas chromatograph

1955-1965

Biped robot

1987-1997

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

1940-1945