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Explore a selection of science-related objects from the Royal Collection

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Science Day

Buckingham Palace 24 October 2006

For Science Day, we have brought together a selection of works from the Royal Collection. Some of the works featured have links to science; for others, multimedia and computer technology allows an object to be explored in entirely new ways.

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Queen Charlotte’s lever watch
Barometrical Clock
Astronomical clock
Egg boiler with the ciphers of George III and five daughters
The 'Kinora'viewer
Elephant automaton
Self portrait in a flat cap
An old woman: ‘The Artist’s Mother’
A formal garden: three ladies surprised by a gentleman
The Young Cardplayers
The babe in the womb
The skeleton
The skull sectioned
The anatomy of the mouth
Studies of the anatomy of the shoulder
Studies of gun-barrels and mortars