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Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

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

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

General Roy's standard scale by Jonathan Sisson, 1742

1742

Book, by Colin Maclaurin. An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

1750

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2000-100 BCE

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

1741

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ear trumpet

1752

Demainbray's model corn mill

1753

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

1730; 1967

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Sake pourer for marriage ceremony

1750

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Votive plaque

1738

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

1880-120

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

Urethrotome, steel, poor condition

1801-1700

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Steel tobacco box-cum-snuff rasp (?) or snuff rasp

1744