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

1702

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

1701-1708

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Storage jar

1714

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

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

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

Standard bronze pint measure, City of London, 1702-1714

1702-1714

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

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece probably issued by James III, the 'Old Pretender'

1715-1716

Stamped nocturnal

1713

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Circular silver medal

1718

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

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800