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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

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

1705-1737

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

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

1990-95

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Silver vinaigrette

1786

Silver vinaigrette

1790

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Box and weights for money changer's scales

1790

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Silver medal

1790

Circular white metal medal

1789

Bronze medal to commemorate Louis XVI and the National Assembly

1789

Yellow metal (copper ?) medal, Deans medal of Pari

1787

Medal, silver, commemorating Edmond-Claude Bourru

1788

Medal, silver, possibly advertising trade token for Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Silver medal

1789

Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1786

Circular bronze medal

1786

Medal, silvered, Hippocrates

1789

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Print: etching

1787

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786