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Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1815

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

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

Medal, gilt, bronze

1817

J C F Schiller Medal, 1819

1819

Bronze medal

1818

Bronze prize medal of the Paris Medical School

1817

Bronze medal

1818

Medal, bronze, commemorating Ambroise Pare for the "gallerie des grands hommes Francais"

1819

Trade token

1817

Oval silver membership medal

1815

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Silver medal

1816-1817

Medal commemorating Ambroise Pare for series "Galerie Metallique des Grands Hommes Francais"

1819

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Bronze medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Circular gold medal

1819

Medal to commemorate Galileo Galilei

1818

Circular bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal

1819

Silver medal to commemorate H. Meyer (1767-1828)

1819

Inauguration of statue of Andreas Vesalius

1817