Science Museum asks public to help identify mystery items
Exclusive: Curators seek answers about puzzling photos, devices and other objectsIn pictures: mystery objects from the Science Museum
by Nicola Davis
Jul 19, 2020
3 minutes
A worn metal tool with a hefty-looking handle, a delicate gadget with pedals, arms and cogs, and a piece of glassware with a snail-like coil in the middle. They might seem a motley collection of objects but they have one thing in common – they are all mysteries.
The objects are among the 7.3m items, from photographs to devices, that form the collection of the Science Museum Group. Curators are
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