Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1752

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

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 four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Sake pourer for marriage ceremony

1750

5 lancets

1744

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

1744

Set of 3 pocket instruments

1742

Microscope Accessories

1750

Diagonal Spy Glass

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Frame to demonstrate parallelogram of forces

1752

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Glass sphere on a stand

1750

Six ivory balls

1750

Glass bell, with suspension ring

1750

One tavi

1742

One cinquina

1752

Bronze medal

1747-1749

Gilded bronze medal by Antonio Selvi

1745

Perforated bronze medal by Antonio Selvi

1745

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

English tin-glazed earthenware pharmacy jar

1750

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

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

1990-95

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600