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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Cutter, Alert

1755

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Boxfoot microscope with ball-socketed pillar

1755

Sake pourer for marriage ceremony

1750

Scarificator with sixteen lancets

1756

Microscope Accessories

1750

Diagonal Spy Glass

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Frame to demonstrate parallelogram of forces

1752

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Glass sphere on a stand

1750

Model: showing concave lens virtual image

1752-1755

Six ivory balls

1750

Glass bell, with suspension ring

1750

Medal commemorating Richard Mead, physician

1754

One cinquina

1752

English tin-glazed earthenware pharmacy jar

1750

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

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

1990-95

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE