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Science Museum
Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
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Origin and history Patent Office Museum at south end of Brompton Boilers (exterior)
Science Museum, London, 9 May 1919
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Origin and history
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Collections The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items
The museum is divided into a large number of galleries
- Power east hall- Flight - Mathematics - Measuring Time - Computing - Cosmos & Culture - Making the Modern World - ………..
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Power east hallCollections
Stephenson's Rocket
Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive)
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Collections Computer hall
The PDP-8, or Straight-8 minicomputer
Charles Babbage's Difference engine
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Glimpses of Medical History Collections
Diorama “The Discovery of Anaesthetics”
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Glimpses of Medical History Collections
The leather covered medicine chest
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Collections Medicine and Biology
half-scale anatomical model of a horse
The heart of a living person
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Collections Cosmos & Culture
Apollo spacecraft Joint European X-ray Telescope (JET-X)
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Collections Flight
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Welcome to the Museum of Science