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Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Compound microscope

1700

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Amuletic pendant

100 BCE -1700

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Haematite weight, Syrian

1700-1600 BCE

Haematite weight, Syrian

1700-1600 BCE

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Tinder box with flint lock mechanism

circa 1700

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE