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Category
Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

1752

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Section of track

1745-1755

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pair of coloured glass discs, 1750.

1745-1755

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Ear trumpet

1752

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

1730; 1967

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

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

1880-120

5 lancets

1744

Brass Clarke's hydrometer

1755

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

1990-95

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Guinea balance in case

1753-1754

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Microscope (dated 1754)

1754

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

A Chain Bridge

1753

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Unlined, unpatterned pull-off paper case for spectacles

1740-1759

Spectacle case

1740-1759