The spectral analysis equipment from 1940 to 1960 include special instruments – spectrometers, spectrophotometers, comparators, monochromators, gas photometers that were built in England, Germany and the Soviet Union. Gas analyzers come from the turn of the twentieth century and from the 1970s; driers, vacuum driers and thermostats from 1920 – 1980. The fund also features extraction apparatuses, instruments for the laboratory preparation of coal gas, laboratory glass including measuring vessels, burettes and pipettes from the period following 1890 and burners from this period.
One special item is the pocket lab from the 19th century in a small paper box with a miniature vessel, burner and chemicals in glass vials and beakers. Another rare feature in the collection are the polarographs, including instruments of the Heyrovský-Shikata system, on which Nobel Prize recipient Heyrovský himself worked.

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