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Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham

1750

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham

1750

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

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

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

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

2050-1750 BCE

Aquatic microscope by J. Cuff with extra stand No. 34 and fishskin case

1745

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

18th Century Gold Doubloon coin (Portugal)

1728

Guinea coin of George II

1736

Peseta coin of Philip V (Spanish South American)

1730

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XV (France)

1728

Franc coin of Louis XV (France)

1727

Green glass disc, 1725-1750.

1725-1750

Wood screw from green glass disc, 1725-1750.

1725-1750