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