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Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

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

Armillary Sphere and Planetarium, 1731.

1731

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

Culpeper microscope with boxfoot made by George Adams in 1738

1738

Working model of John Wyatt's original Cart-Weighing machine

1741

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

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

One grano coin

1736

Silver medal

1736

Engraving: Portrait of William Harvey MD (1578-1657)/Houbraken

1739

Silver medal

1724

One carlino

1734

One tavi

1742

One grano, bronze coin, associated with Grand Master of the Knights of Malta

1726

Medal commemorating Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italy, 1732

1732

Bronze coin

1734

Medal, copper, of Dean Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chomel of Paris Medical Faculty

1740

Copper medal

1742

Copper medal

1742

Medal to commemorate Doctor Averar

1729

Bronze medal commemorating Louis XV

1728

Silver medal to commemorate the centenary of Utrecht University

1736

Gold medal to commemorate the birth of the heir of Bohemia

1724

Bronze trade token of Stanley Myddelton

1724

Copper medal

1732

Bronze Dean's medal of Paris Medical School

1742