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Compound microscope

1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

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

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

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

One foot folding carpenter's rule, brass, c. 1700

1698-1703

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Trade card: J Wilson (manuscript). (Calv. 448)

1706

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

Engraving, `Befeuchtet zu Leuchten'. An oil lamp. Nuremberg

1709

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

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE

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

circa 1700-1600 BCE