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

1702

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Compound microscope

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Iron Weight

1910-130

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

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

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

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Albarello, earthenware, tin-glazed

1701-180

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

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

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

5" brass octagonal table clock with glass sides

early 17th century onwards