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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Half-penny coin

1799

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Half-penny coin

1799

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

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

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Richard Arkwright

1790

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Culpeper microscope in pyramidal box

1791-1793

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Solar microscope in case

1788-1796

Silver pill box

1798

Silver vinaigrette

1790

Apothecary's scales

1796

Silver vinaigrette

1799

Silver vinaigrette

1798

Silver gilt vinaigrette

1798

Brass automatic lancet

1798

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Straight spectacles

1798-1799

Transverse folding spectacles

1793-1795

Transverse folding spectacles

1797-1799

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1792

Tobacco box

1792

Pocket surgical instrument set

1796

Urethrotome, steel, poor condition

1801-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Metal tobacco box

1790-1795

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Haystack Steam Boiler, with accessories

1791

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3