Highlights of UCL Science Collections

Nearly two centuries' worth of objects, instruments, and prototypes at the forefront of science.

In the collection is an animal respirator that would have been used to keep an animal breathing during vivisection.

A device designed by Francis Galton where pins arranged in a 'quincunx' diamond pattern cause lead shot to be dispersed into the bell-shaped curve.

This astro clinometer is a navigational instrument invented for use by the RAF on long-range desert missions during World War II.

This valve was used by J. Ambrose Fleming in his early experiments leading to the development of the thermionic valve.

These two magic lantern slides are from a collection of over 3,500 slides, many of which were used by J. Ambrose Fleming.

This death mask is from a collection of phrenological busts belonging to Robert Noel.

These two photos are among the first images of Earth from the moon, captured by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.

These discharge tubes were used by Sir William Ramsay in his discovery of five new elements now known as the noble gases.

Selection of surgical instruments and tools used by pioneering surgeon Robert Liston.

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