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Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Ear trumpet

1752

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

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

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Six ivory balls

1750

Level by Benjamin Cole

1750

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

Trade Bill Le Sr. Magny

1750

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Early wine bottle, about 1740

1735-1745

Early wine bottle, about 1740

1735-1745

Iron Weight

1910-130