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Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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 Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

Culpeper microscope with boxfoot made by George Adams in 1738

1738

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

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

One carlino

1734

Bronze coin

1734

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

1740

Silver medal to commemorate the centenary of Utrecht University

1736

Silvered copper or bronze medal commemorating the new Academy at Dijon

1740

Circular white metal medal

1736-1740

Medal, silver, commemorating Jean Baptiste Chomel

1740

Small silver medal with reeded edge

1734

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal commemorating Reneaulme de Lagaranne

1736

Bronze medal to commemorate J.M. Martellini

1734

Copper(?) medal, of the Paris Medical School, comm

1736

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE