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