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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1990-95

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

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

1705-1737

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Cartwright, Edmund

1743 - 1823

The Art of Stocking Frame Work Knitting

1750

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

1747

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

lender

Royal College of Surgeons of England

1745

Dalswinton House and Loch

1744

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

2050-1750 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

2000-1350 BCE

Acheulian flint hand axe, c 10000-5000 BC.

10000-5001 BCE

1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Argand, Ami

1750 - 1803

1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975

1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

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

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)