More from the Science Museum last Boxing Day Bank Holiday. Images
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A marine chronometer by Thomas Samuel Cogdon, circa 1889.
A turret clock movement by William Smith, circa 1850.
Difference Engine No. 2. (Which no longer gets demonstrated, as it's
too expensive to keep it operational.)
The Ada Lovelace exhibition: Surviving parts of Difference Engine No. 1.
A Jacquard-type ribbon loom.
Trial model of a part of the Analytical Engine.
Churchill's Scientists exhibition: Naxos radar warning receiver (not
"aerial" as described).
H2S radar set (descendants of which were still in service in the
Vulcan).
Valve from a Chain Home radar station.
Watson-Watt's original radar receiver.
The original magnetron, and an electromagnet used in the original experiments.
Suitcase of glass slides used in Tube Alloys work at Rhydymwyn.
Original model of pencillin.
Fermentation vessels for penicillin production.
A variety of antibiotics of the era.
Magnox fuel rods and grab tools. (The idea was to show Churchill's
scientific legacy, though it wasn't entirely convincing.)
Magnox reactor inspection vehicle.
Hodgkin and Huxley's apparatus for studying nerve impulses in squid.
(Popular among physiologists not only for their conveniently large
neurons but because you can eat them afterwards.)
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