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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

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

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal

1832

Portrait lithograph print of Claude Louis Berthollet, 1832

1832

Silver medal commemorating cholera commission of Amsterdam

1832

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait of Christopher Tennant M.P.C.

1832

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Uterine probe

1901-950

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

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