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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

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

1880-120

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

1990-95

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1718

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Circular silver medal

1718

Bronze Louis XV medal commemorating the revival or re-creation of the Academy in 1719

1719

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Copper medal

1716

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Bronze medal to commemorate M.P. Hecquet

1713

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Medal, copper, commemorating A. Doute

1718

medal, copper, commemorating M.Ph.Hecquet as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

1713

Reading lens in leather mount, 1701-1730

1701-1720

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of Queen Anne

1713

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE