Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

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

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

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

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

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

1972-3

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

1990-95

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE