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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 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

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

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

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal commemorating Reneaulme de Lagaranne

1736

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

1736

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

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

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Compound drum microscope

1740

Guinea coin of George II

1736

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: Benjamin Martin

1736-1740

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)