Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Schilling coin of Christian V (of Denmark and Norway)

1681

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1680

Penny coin of Charles II

1674

Penny coin of Charles II

1677

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

20-500

Sundial and compass with perpetual calendar and lunar circles. Brass

1677

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

3500-1000