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Images released by the Science Museum, London under and open license
14-wire cable damaged by fusion at Manchester University
60-inch cyclotron, c 1930s
Artificial limbs for a thalidomide child, 1961-1965
Artificial nose, 17th-18th century
Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871
Babbage's Difference Engine No 1, 1824-1832
Baby Blue - a prototype polymerase chain reaction (PCR), c 1986
Stephen Hawking's computer and speech synthesiser housing
Demonstration model of Babbage’s Difference Engine No 1
Early Geiger counter, made by Hans Geiger, 1932
EMG Mark Xb handmade gramophone, c 1934
Gearwheel cut-outs for Babbages Difference Engine No 1, 1824-1832
Glass flask used by Louis Pasteur
Glass flask used by Marie Curie
Glass prism, mounted at end of a brass tube, used by Sir William Herschel
Henry Wood’s printing press, 1934
Hughes printing telegraph, 1860
Ionisation chamber made by Pierre Curie
Iron artificial arm, 1560-1600
Items belonging to Florence Nightingale, Nelson and Livingstone
J J Thomson's cathode ray tube with magnet coils, 1897
James Lovelocks Electron capture detector for a gas chromatograph
Laennec's stethoscope, c 1820
Medicine chest used by Captain Scott, 1910-1912
Michael Faraday's chemical chest, 19th century
Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin
Nobel prize medal awarded to Alexander Fleming, 1945
One sample of shape-memory polymer foam, as researched for use in shape-changing aeroplanes
Original cavity magnetron, 1940
Prototype photon counting system, c 1980
Punch cards in tray for Pilot ACE computer built at the National Physical Laboratory c. 1950
Quadrant electrometer built by Pierre Curie, 1880-1890
SABRE engine designed for Skylon spaceplane, 1990s
Sample of Edward Jenners hair, 1823
Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod, 1935
Sample radio telescope receiver, 1986
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope, 1986
Set of 16 prototype electrodes for applied potential tomography (APT), 1987
Silica Space Shuttle thermal protection (TPS) tile, c 1980
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, early 20th century
Skeletal arm showing diamond coated steel pins stabilising broken bones by connecting them to steel splints
Smyth's revised ozonometer, 1865
Stainless steel and ultra high molecular weight polythene hip replacement
Telstar solar cells, c 1980
Template from Crick and Watson’s DNA molecular model, 1953
The physicists Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli and Rudolf Peierls, c 1953
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
Trematode cyst-infected Pacific Treefrog (Hyla regilla) with supernumerary limbs
Two experimental models for Babbage's Analytical Engine, c 1870
Wax anatomical model of female human head showing internal structure of skull
Williamson home constructed amplifier, c 1949