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Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Aquatic microscope by J. Cuff with extra stand No. 34 and fishskin case

1745

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)

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

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Compound drum microscope

1740

Wilson type screw barreled microscope

1742

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Portable microscope by George Lindsay

1743

Pamphlet for pocket microscope by James Mann and James Ayscough

1743

Engraving: plans of London Bridge

1746

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: James Ayscough. An illustration of a pair of spectacles

1740

John Bennet

1740

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350