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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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 repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

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

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

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

One grano coin

1736

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Wafer tongs

1715

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Brass pill divider

1712

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

1972-3

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

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE