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A six column tank-bed beam engine built in 1846 by Peel, Williams & Peel of Salford and used at Thomas Redfern, file makers. Stockport. It was latterly displayed at the Lancashire textile museum, Helmshore. The slide valve cylinder is 12" x 20". the flywheels is 9' diameter and the beam is 5' 6" between end centres.

The theory Huge copper cavities such as this one accelerated particles in CERN's Large Electron - Positron (LEP) Collider, the previous occupant of the 27km tunnel that now houses the Large Hadron Collider (description provided by Museum of Science and Industry).

A Rolls-Royce motorcar built at Hulme in 1905, on display in the main hall at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. It is generally accepted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27274508 that the Rolls-Royce partnership began following a meeting between pioneer motor car salesman Charles Rolls and expert engineer Henry Royce at Manchester's Midland hotel in 1904. This particular car was Henry Royce's personal vehicle until he sold it to an enthusiast in 1906.

Replica of the Manchester Baby, the world's first stored programme computer People have been known to travel half way round the world to see this replica. The "Baby" has a hallowed place in the history of computing

The problem is I recognise all this stuff. This is not only a replica of the world's first ever proper computer, but it is built with all the technology and techniques I was using when I started work. Perhaps I am a museum piece too.

Part of Image, the world's first proper computer, was this mysterious object which looks like a cathode ray tube. Because it was. But it is a very specialised version of a CRT, a charge storage tube. It has a grid like anode behind the main fluorescent anode, upon which charge can be stored, and the state read back by the beam heading for the display. This was the 16 16-bit storage registers of the Manchester Baby, and the concept of charge storage tubes persisted for a while. I was using them in CAD terminals in the late 1980s, and they were common in air traffic control and marine radars, where they were both a display and a data processing device .

Experiment! consists of hands-on learning activities for children (of any age!). It is situated on the first floor of the museum's "main" building, the Grade II-listed former GWR warehouse.