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Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

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

1705-1737

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Engraving, mezzotint, The Earl of Chesterfield's State Carriage

1800

Copper matrix

1800

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Jointed rope-maker's slide rule

1802

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1800

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1800

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Spode"

circa 1800

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Letterpress broadsheet : Monsieur Garnerin's Wonderful Descent by a Parachute

1802

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Ell Rod, European, 1802

1802

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800

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

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Medal to commemorate Sacco

1802

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

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

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

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

1990-95

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE