1Energy Hall

Steam engines from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the Boulton and Watt Lap Engine, Old Bess and James Watt's reconstructed workshop.

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Puffing Billy

William Hedley, Jonathan Forster and Timothy Hackworth, 1813 to 1814

Level 0, Making the Modern World

Apollo 10 Command Module Charlie Brown

North American Rockwell Corporation, 1969

Level 0, Space gallery (West Hall)

Boulton and Watt Rotative Engine (the Lap Engine)

Boulton and Watt, Soho, Birmingham, 1788

Level 0, Energy Hall

James Watt's Workshop

James Watt, workshop contents 1790s to 1819; installed 1924; reopened 2011

Level 0, Energy Hall (upper level)

V2 Rocket

German Army rocket programme, Peenemunde, 1945

Level 0, Making the Modern World

Crick and Watson's DNA Double Helix Model

Francis Crick and James Watson; reconstruction by Farooq Hussain, 1953; reconstructed 1977

Level 0, Making the Modern World