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Place of origin
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Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Compass plane

1717

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Storage jar

1714

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

Brass pill divider

1712

Silver vinatigrette

1701-800

Lancet case

1718

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684

Circular silver medal with suspension loop

1707

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

White metal medal

1703

Bronze medal

1704

Small silver with ribbed edge

1683

Albarello, earthenware, tin-glazed

1701-180

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Tin glazed earthenware albarello bearing a monasti

1701-800

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

1972-3

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Guinea coin of Charles II

1684

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718