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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

Dissecting microscope, c. 1750

1745-1755

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

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)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Flax Spinning Wheel

1745-1755

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Anamorphic picture, early 18th century, with cone mirror, wooden cover and two anamorphic pictures

1745-1753

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

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

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Portrait of John Kay of Bury (1704-1762)

1750-1759

Working model of John Wyatt's original Cart-Weighing machine

1741

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Prior Park, the Seat of Ralph Allen, Esqre, near Bath

1752

Portrait print from etching of Gowin Knight, 1751

1751

James Ayscough

1748-1759

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

1747

Silver medal commemorating Charles Alexander Loth

1756

Cast bronze medal commemorating Robert Barker

1744

Silver(?) medal, relates to the lands of Haynault,

1743

Medal, copper, commemorating the restoration of an operating theatre

1746

One tavi

1742

One cinquina

1752

Bronze medal commemorative of an event or situation appertaining to Soissons in 1743

1743

Silver medal or token with reeded edge commemorating restoration of Academy of Letters in 1700 at Lyons

1740-1760

Medal, copper of Dean Jean-Baptiste Louis Chomel

1756

Medal, copper, of Dean Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chomel of Paris Medical Faculty

1740

Brass medal

1758

Copper medal

1742

Copper medal

1742

Medal, bronze, of Dean Hy. Theod (Baron) of Faculty of Medicine

1751