Patterns in History Resources

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The main hall in the National Museum of Scotland
Main Hall, National Museum of Scotland
Chinese Dragon (model)
Leather watch case
Uummannaq, Greenland, c1927-28
Sunstar, Crossaster papposus
Goliath birdwing butterfly, ornithoptera goliath
Ammonoidea indet., Halstat, Austria
Model Sailing ship, representing a full-rigged sailing ship from the period before the introduction of practical steamships c1875
ACT Apricot F1 Computer
Microprocessor, Intel pentium A80502 SX962 containing 3,200,000 transistors, on ceramic substrate. Intel, USA, c1994
Painted ceramic, Lalejin, Iran, 2018
Smelly Flower (model), Rafflesia arnoldii
Oliver No 9. Oliver Typewriter company, Chicago, Illinois, c1913
Woven cotton and silk, Silver studio, London, England, c1900
Adrenaline hormone (model)
Orbicular granodiorite, Western Australia
Shababik Birds 1 by Ibrahim Said, Greensboro, USA, 2016
Shababik Birds 1 by Ibrahim Said, Greensboro, USA, 2016
Series of bulb designs

All images taken by the Edinburgh Learns team at the National Museum of Scotland


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