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  • Clocks: jigs for spring-coiling (top), and cog-placing (below). Engraving by Lachaussé after L.J. Goussier.
  • Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with coiled Cobra disc ear-pieces and Cobra headress representing beaked gurulu rassa from Kolam play, Sinhalese
  • Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with coiled Cobra disc ear-pieces and Cobra headress representing beaked gurulu rassa from Kolam play, Sinhalese
  • A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.
  • A woman with billowing drapery standing before a coiled serpent as she offers a cup to a young man in a barge. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle, SEM
  • Filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle, SEM
  • Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio)
  • Bioengineered sweat gland, conceptual artwork
  • Anaesthesia, artwork
  • Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo across membranes
  • Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo across membranes
  • Electricity: seventeen figures showing apparatus related to galvanism, electro-magnetism, magneto-electricity and thermo-electricity. Engraving by J.W. Lowry, 1825/1840?.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A mechanical-break appliance.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • SEM organ of Corti, showing hair cells
  • SEM organ of Corti, showing hair cells
  • An actor poses on stage as "Sulmary".
  • An actor poses on stage as "Sulmary".
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Internal organs, from the Daoist Canon, 15th century Chinese
  • SEM guinea pig cochlea lying in skull