One of a collection of agricultural models - a condensing beam steam engine, made in 1840

Working model of compound diagonal paddle engine, fitted with portion of boat hull, made in the museum in 1905

Model of a Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway six-coupled bogie type locomotive and tender, made to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 1 foot by Adam Gilbert of Wallsend-on-Tyne

'Freddy' the world's first thinking robot to combine an 'eye' and tactile 'hand', University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1970s

Black Knight launch stand

Dolly the Sheep, Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758, Finn Dorset breed, mounted skin and skeleton, born 5 July 1996 at the Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland of a Scottish Blackface surrogate mother, died 14 February 2003

Affymetrix GeneChip Hybridisation Oven 640

MinION, a small device created with nanopore technology which can analyze DNA, RNA and proteins; consists of MinION, a MinION box which contains the chip which goes into the outer casing and the original mount provided by the company; by Oxford Nanopore Technology, 2015

Hawk aircraft mainplane, aluminium alloy, BAE Systems, 2000 - 2016

Plastic 384 well plate for individual genotyping, one sample variant per well

ThermoFisher QuantStudio Array with 2,056 wells for individual genotyping with one sample or variant per well, 2015

Illumina microarray, generally used for a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), roughly 1 million) per array and used in genome wide association studies

Ion PGM 314 sequencing chip with 1.2 million wells which works by detecting H+ atoms released (pH change) when a nucleotide base in incorporated; the chip converts the pH change into an electronic signal, by Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 2015

Ion Proton PI sequencing chip, with 165 million wells, detects H+ atoms released (pH change) when a nucleotide base is incorporated, the chip converts the pH change into an electronic signal, only takes 4 hours to sequence which is very fast, used for human exome sequencing, by Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 2015

Illumina HiSeqX flow cell, used for sequencing 8x human genomes (to 30x coverage), the $1000 genome project and used to sequence the Lothian Birth Cohort, 2015