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Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

Art

1963

Poster, translated as the Light of (or Long live) the (World's) first woman (female) Cosmonaut; issued by the Soviet State Publishing House of Decorative/Fine Arts Moscow, 1963. Slogan title in Czech 'At Zije prvni kosmonautka sveta'; imprint in Russian. Featuring design of Vostok-6 and (photograph) HS portrait of Valentina Tereshkova in space helmet. [orbited Earth June 1963]. Lithograph, col. offset, 57 x 85 cm. In frame 67x95x2cm

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Glass microscope slide. Part of compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester and purchased from the makers Smith & Beck of London in 1852. Possibly used by Lankester when examining water from the pump at Broad St, Soho, the focus of the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854.

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1850-1910

Orthopaedics

1850-1910

Artificial arm, steel with brass wrist mountings, leather top piece, European, 1840-1940.

Paillard-Bolex B8 8mm cine camera

Cinematography

1953

Paillard-Bolex B8 cinecamera. Made in Switzerland. Standard 8mm. Yvar lens F:13mm f/1.9, No. 548378, and Kinotel lens F:38mm f/1.9, No. 2094, in two lens turret. Clockwork drive 8-64 fps. Totaly closing adjustable shutter. No. 616799.

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Kodak No 1 camera, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co 1889 to1895. Box camera for factory loaded film, 100 exposures. 2 1/2" diameter / rapid rectilinear lens, fixed aperture and focus, sector type shutter, cocked by string, with attached lens plug. Serial No 10275 embossed in top and rear of camera body.

'Bloom' kinetic sculpture by Studio Roso

Studio Roso

2019

'Bloom' kinetic sculpture by Studio Roso, commissioned for the 'Medicine and Us' gallery in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum, 2019. Hanging from the ceiling, a powder-coated black, branched, mild-steel structure spreads across the gallery and over the balcony into the neighbouring space. Each branch supports a polypropylene propeller, motor and LED unit. These glow, change colour and turn in 18 different sequences over a 20-minute loop.

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

Radio Communication

1953

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, type PE80, made by Pye Limited, Cambridge, England, 1953

Packet of Nicorette chewing gum, Sweden, 1973-1983

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1973-1983

1x7 pack of Nicorette chewing gum (nicotine), an aid to giving up smoking, by Lundbeck, expires 1984

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, Class 1001 long boiler, 0-6-0, built for North Eastern Railway, designed by William Booch who developed Stephenson’s original ‘long boiler’ design, built at Dubs & Co. Glasgow in 1874, withdrawn in 1923. Length over buffers: 48' 6"; weight: 35 tons; driving wheels 5 feet, 6 inches.

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

1 Hack saw, 8”

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Orrery, tellurium or planetary model, c. 1712, made for Charles Boyle, the fourth Earl of Orrery by John Rowley, Fleet Street, London.

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, 1962-1967

Radio Communication

1962-1967

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, made by Mullard Research Laboratories, Redhill, Surrey, England, 1962-1967

Forest of Rods model of myoglobin

Biochemistry

1960

Part of model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution of 2 Angstroms: it comprises steel rods with meccano clips in wooden base-boards with Kendrew-type skeletal models showing the peptide chain

Statue of St Mary Magdalene

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1601-1750

Wooden figure of saint Mary Magdalene as a penitent, invoked against plague, ulcers and for children slow or weak, possibly Spanish, 1601-1750

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Alexander Bain's chemical telegraph, unknown maker, England, 1850. Includes key not shown on photograph.

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard, 1925-1960

Telecommunications

1925-1960

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard with positions for three operators, unknown maker, British, 1925-1960. In use at Enfield Telephone Exchange 22 July 1925 to 5 October 1960

Electroencephalogram (EEG) pen recorder

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1958

Control unit for Type T Dynograph portable 8 channel EEG pen recorder manufactured by Offner in 1958 and used at the Burden Neurological Institute. The instrument employs direct coupled amplifiers enabling recording of steady potentials and transients. 8 double ganged 24 way switches enable any two of 24 electrodes to be connected to each of the 8 channels.

replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1934

Replica of Morse's first model of telegraphy apparatus of 1835, possibly made by the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, 1934

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Electric locomotive, Waterloo & City Railway, Bo - Third Rail No D75S, built by Siemens Brothers of London in 1898, withdrawn in May 1968.

Packet of 20 Davidoff Magnum Supreme Virginia cigarettes

Smoking

1999

Packet of 20 Davidoff Magnum Supreme Virginia cigarettes, considered one of the most luxurious and expensive cigarettes in 1999, made in Germany by Reemisma under licence of Davidoff & Cie SA, Geneva, c.1999.

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway, 2-2-4T No 66, "Aerolite", designed by Edward Fletcher, built at Gateshead in 1869, withdrawn in 1933.

Gloster Aircraft, E28/39, (without engine)

Aeronautics

Gloster Aircraft, E28/39, (without engine)

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Radio Communication

1922-1925

Three-valve receiver used in a Derbyshire colliery test, unknown maker, Derby, England, 1922-1925. Ref. Wireless World 2/12/22 p.314

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Microscope, English, 1830-1850, given to Lord Lister by his father J.J. Lister in 1849

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, invented by Thomas Edison, United States, 1878.

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway, No DE900566, 1891.

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1951

Cattle Van, railway wagon, No. 3733 8 ton Special Cattle Van, British Railways (Southern Region), built Lancing Works 1951. (Built to diagram number 3141, construction span 1930-1951, number built 60). Length over buffers: 29' 5"; weight: 8 tons.

Disposable vaginal speculum used for cervical smear test. Made by Pelican Feminine Healthcare

Clinical Diagnosis

2011-2017

Disposable vaginal speculum used for cervical smear test. Made by Pelican Feminine Healthcare, Ca.2011-201

British Railways Horse Box

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1957

Horse Box, British Railways, No S96369, designed at Eastleigh, built at Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works, 1957, withdrawn at Micheldever, 1971. [Built to diagram BR 751, construction span 1957-1958, number built 115, lot number 30146].

Aerial tuning inductor from the Rugby Radio Station, 1943-1966

Radio Communication

1943-1966

Variable inductance coil for tuning the aerial of the very-low-frequency (16 kHz) transmitter (callsign GBR) installed at Rugby Radio Station, unknown maker, British, 1943-1966. Constructed in 1943 to the original 1926 design, and as modified in 1966, together with separate transformer and variometer with supporting framework.

Nokia 'Mediamaster' set-top box, 1997-2002

Computing & Data Processing

1997-2002

Nokia Mediamaster television set top box for use with ONdigital prepaid digital television service, made by Nokia, Sweden, 1997-2002

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Plaster relief model of a portion of the lunar surface by James Nasmyth, 1844, showing the lunar craters Maurolycus and Barocius, compared to Earth's Mount Vesuvius. There is a scale in red at bottom centre.

Vodafone 'Transportable' mobile telephone, 1985

Telecommunications

1985

Transportable mobile telephone, made by Vodafone Limited, England, 1985

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Quarter-plate `Midg' camera manufactured by W Butcher & Sons, London, 1902-1920, used by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths to make the first two `Cottingley fairies' photographs in 1917.

Keracolor Sphere TV set

Television

1970

Keracolor Sphere TV set, made in 1970 by Group Systems (Keracolor) Ltd, Northwich, with associated archive material.

Pottery drug jar

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Pottery drug jar, ovoid body, with parchment cover, possibly Persian

Doncaster Works Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1896-1967

Photographs, a collection of approximately 11,450 silver gelatin glass negatives, predominantly 6½ x 4¾ ins and 8½ x 6½ ins, also 12 x 10 ins to 20 x 16 ins, and approximately 1,050 cellulose nitrate and triacetate safety negatives, 35 mm to 3½ x 2½ ins. Featuring construction and repair of locomotives, carriages and wagons for the Great Northern, London & North Eastern and British Railways, together with road vehicles, munitions manufacture during First World War, people, events, c1896-1967. The work of Bagshaw & Son and official photographers based at Doncaster Works. Complete with four registers. Known as the Doncaster Works Collection.

Collection of images taken by George Stainton (b1852-d1926)

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c1900 - c1923

Collection of images taken by George Stainton (b1852-d1926), engine fitter and driver for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). 14 (6½ x 4¾ ins) half plate glass plate negatives taken on a A.J. Lancaster & Son 1899 Instantograph Patent camera showing engines, workshops, track, family, works staff, women and children, excursions including the Britannia Bridge, one of George's sons holding a toy train, two of St Pauls, Wednesbury and the front of Lichfield Cathedral. Nine photographic prints some taken on a Coronet Anastigmat F.P. camera and Kodak cameras showing showing family and other works staff stood in front of engines.

Whaling harpoon

Water Transport

1800-1900

Whaling harpoon (c. 1850)

Nintendo Game Boy Color, model CGB-001

Computing & Data Processing

1998

Nintendo Game Boy Color, model number CGB-001.

Tiger claw bagh nakh

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Steel tiger claw baghnakh with curved knife blade, Indian, 1801-1900

‘Larzine’ Unani medicine for malaria

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1975-1980

Larzine, Unani medicine for malaria, one of a selection of drugs and related material from India, 1975-1980.

model carriage - great indian peninsular railway

Railway Models

Model railway carriage, 1:12 scale, Great Indian Peninsular Railway carriage, repesents a passenger carriage fitted with special air cooling and ventilating arrangements devised by Mr R.D. Sanders, 1871.

Bronze pessary, Roman, 200 BCE-400 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE-400 CE

Ring pessary, bronze, Roman

Tuberculin tester and BCG vaccinator, England, 1980-1990

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1990

'Mark 6' re-usable multiple puncture apparatus for performing the Heaf test to determine the necessity of a BCG vaccinations against TB, in box with instructions, by East, Oxford, England, c.1980-1990