Robert Stephenson's 0-2-2 locomotive [Rocket](https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8084947/stephensons-rocket-steam-locomotive) from the [Science Museum Group Collection](http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/).  

Manufactured in 1829 by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle, close to today’s Newcastle Central railway station, Rocket won the famous [Rainhill Trials](https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/rocket-rainhill-and-rise-locomotive)  to become the fastest locomotive of its time thanks to its innovative design.

This 3D model of Rocket was produced using 22 high resolution LIDAR scans and over 2,500 detailed photographs taken in May 2018. More information on how the Science Museum Group worked with [ScanLAB](https://scanlabprojects.co.uk/) to create the model can be found  in the [Science Museum Group Digital Lab website](https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/scanning-stephensons-rocket-40916fdb4d20).

Stephenson's Rocket

Enigma machines were designed to create complex coded messages that were almost impossible to crack. Throughout the Second World War, Germany and its allies used Enigma machines on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky and in their secret services to send military messages. The Germans considered the Enigma code to be unbreakable, but mathematicians in Poland, France and the UK developed advanced techniques that broke the Enigma code, helping to shorten the war. Today mathematics is at the heart of all computer security – as well as attempts to break it.

*Enhanced digitisation funded by Samsung, founding partner of the Science Museum Group Digital Lab.*

Enigma machine, 1934

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2248

The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

Inventory number: MP 407

Golden eagle

The common raven (Corvus corax), also known as the western raven or northern raven.

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2247

The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

Inventory number: MP 040

Common raven

This prosthetic arm was made in 1904 for a professional pianist – a woman called Elizabeth Burton. The prosthetic arm had padded fingers and a wide span, features that enabled her to keep playing the piano, so that she could still make a living for her family.

Use our 3D artificial arm model in the classroom to bring your curriculum teaching to life: https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/resources/artificial-arm

Find out more in the Science Museum Group online collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co476713/

Artificial Arm

This is a wooden acupuncture model made in Japan in 1681. It was probably used to train students of acupuncture, a part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In acupuncture, practitioners insert fine needles into the skin of a patient, at precise positions called acupuncture points. The model shows these points, marked with Japanese characters, along lines called meridians, which are also shown on the model.

Use our 3D acupuncture model in the classroom to bring your curriculum teaching to life: https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/resources/acupuncture-model/

Find out more in the Science Museum Group online collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co122782/

Acupuncture model

Model of a human brain, sectioned, French, first half 19th century.

The model shows a sectioned human brain made from papier mâché. The parts can be removed to show the internal structure of the brain. Each is labelled with a number and some of the parts have the name of the section printed in French. This model was used as an aid to teach anatomy.

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co77087/

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Model of a human brain

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2394

The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

Inventory number:
MP 148

Barn owl

**For more images and further information, visit:** https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2250

Inventory number: MP 045

Localisation of the physical object: Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project**

Lekking ruffs

This device, used in operating theatres in the 1870s and 1880s, filled the air with a pungent, yellow mist of an antiseptic called carbolic acid. British surgeon Joseph Lister invented it, hoping it would kill airborne bacteria, reducing the chance of infection during surgery.

Use our 3D carbolic steam spray model in the classroom to bring your curriculum teaching to life: https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/resources/listers-carbolic-spray

Find out more in the Science Museum Group online collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co163555/

Carbolic Steam Spray

Inventory number: MP gablota nr 2a

Museum: The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2389

Digitalisation: Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project

Blaps mortisaga

This wooden statue was made around 1900, on the Andeman and Nicobar Islands, near India. It was known as a kareau, or ’scare-devil’. Religious ritual healers made the statues, which the islanders believed had magical protective powers.

Use our 3D Kareau statue model in the classroom to bring your curriculum teaching to life: https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/resources/statue-to-drive-away-evil-spirits

Find out more in the Science Museum Group online collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co125762/

Statue to drive away evil spirits

This is a packet of ‘Gold Flake’ brand cigarettes, made some time between 1920 and 1950 by W.D. & H.O. Wills – one of the first companies to mass-produce cigarettes. At that time, scientists had not yet identified the dangers of smoking, so cigarette companies were allowed to advertise and promote their products.

Use our 3D packet of cigarettes model in the classroom to bring your curriculum teaching to life: https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/resources/packet-of-cigarettes

Find out more in the Science Museum Group online collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8102855/

Packet of Cigarettes

The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2390

Inventory number: MP gablota nr 2b

European stag beetle

ID no.: MP 338

Museum: The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2392

Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project

Goldcrests

Inventory number: MP gablota nr 3

Museum: The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2397

Digitalisation: Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project

Flower chafer – Protaetia speciosissima

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2393

The Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice

Inventory number: MP 346

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