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Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1730; 1967

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

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

5 lancets

1744

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

1990-95

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Set of flat troy penny weights in fitted mahogany case

1737

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

A table of the Days and Months For Ever

1735-1745

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Squat bronze mortar

1730

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Early wine bottle, about 1740

1735-1745

Early wine bottle, about 1740

1735-1745

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

One grano coin

1736

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

1739

One carlino

1734

One tavi

1742

Bronze coin

1734

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

1740

Copper medal

1742

Copper medal

1742

Bronze medal celebrating Louis XV's return to health after an illness

1744

Copper medal

1732

Bronze medal

1731

Silver medal to commemorate Elias col de Vilars

1741

Medal, silver, commemorating Jean Baptiste Chomel

1740