Taxidermy western lowland gorilla, adult, male, mounted skin and skeleton.
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Illumina HiSeqX flow cell. Used for sequencing 8x human genomes (to 30x coverage). Used for the $1000 genome project.
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3D printed plastic blue duck.
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Statue of 'The Martyrdom of St Sebastian', painted oak: a follower of Arnt von Kalkar, the Lower Rhine Region, c. 1480 - 1490
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'Freddy' the world's first thinking robot to combine an 'eye' and tactile 'hand', University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1970s
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Ball-headed club, of alder wood, paint, wool and feather ornament, collected by James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, whilst Governor-General of Canada, 1847 - 1854: Americas, Canada, possibly Haudenosaunee or Iroquois, pre 1854
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Sample of fracking proppant, small ceramic beads used in the oil and gas industry to enhance well productivity. ©National Museums Scotland
Liquid-propellant rocket engine for the Messerschmitt rocket interceptor, c. 1944.
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Pair of toy telephones, "Junior Phone", made in Japan by Modern Toys. ©National Museums Scotland
Taxidermy white-cheeked gibbon, adult male.
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Kokoro table lamp, composed of red paper shade, metal base, and heart shaped mirror, from the MaMoNouchies series, by Ingo Maurer, Munich, Germany, 2001
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Taxidermy western lowland gorilla, adult, male, mounted skin and skeleton.
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Table lamp with an asymmetric tiltable head, black, with cable, called 'AJ Table Lamp', designed by Arne Jacobsen for Louis Poulsen, Denmark.
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Webley Mark V .455 government model revolver, 1914.
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Chemical model of Ranitidine.
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A section of a composite umbilical cable. Manufactured by JDR Cable Systems Ltd., UK for Swiber Offshore Construction, China, 2013.
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Model 3D printed brain showing physical structure, made from a from a brain scan.
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