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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

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)

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

John Hadley

1728

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

Medal to commemorate Philip, Baron de Stosch

1727

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

1913; circa 900 CE

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Leather case containing 4 unidentified instruments

1722

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160