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Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819

1819

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

1818

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Model, of Sir Edward Belcher's anchor

1815

Engraving by J.H. Robinson after Hayton of George Parker Bidder (1806-78) of Devonshire Act 13'. Published by Colnaghi

1819

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Bronze medal

1819

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages. [town coach] / Published by R. Ackermann

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages. [landau carriage] / Published by R. Ackermann

1816

Aquatint of 'The London Engineer'

1819

Colonial threepence coin of George III

1816

Sovereign coin of George III

1817

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Sovereign coin of George III

1818

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Dry voltaic pile, 13 inches long

1815

Dry voltaic pile, 11.5 inches long

1815

Print of industrial scene: Smelting House

1818

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

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

30-200

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

20-500