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