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Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

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)

Armillary Sphere and Planetarium, 1731.

1731

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

1738

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

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Medal to commemorate Philip, Baron de Stosch

1727

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

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

1913; circa 900 CE

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

The Company of Undertakers

1736

Silver pomander

1737

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Barber's shaving bowl

1730-1740