We're busy photographing thousands of items from the collection and publishing them online for you to explore. We've pick a few to share with you this Friday afternoon 📷👇
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🌏 This stunningly beautiful pocket terrestrial globe was made by J & W Newton in London around 1818. If you look closely you can see Australia is called New Holland bit.ly/2NPcywk
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⌨️ Over 100 #typewriters in the collection have now been photographed and you can explore them all here bit.ly/2NTdJuH
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🖐️ Lots of amulets from our medicine collection have images online for the first time, including this bronze hand amulet from Italy bit.ly/2NRkLjK
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🏥💉 We've also photographed a wide range of surgical items, from a Roman bone saw to pocket surgical kits bit.ly/2NQsQ86
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🚜🚲🚎 Many models can now be seen online for the first time, from a Nuffield 460 tractor and gyroscope safety bicycle to an impressive cooling tower and electric trolleybus from Bradford bit.ly/2NNAr7s
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🧮 There are new photographs of our computing collection too, including this cute 1970s Casio electronic calculator bit.ly/2NPsVsR
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🧔 This Remington electric shaver was made in the late 1930s and is part of our huge collection of tools bit.ly/2NPMBNh
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📱🐍 We also captured the now cult classic 3310. This is just one of the many mobile phones that we care for in the collection bit.ly/2NOXqPr
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🚀🌕 Finally, feast your eyes on these glorious Apollo mission patches (now on display in the museum) bit.ly/2NRqsy8
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