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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

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

1850-1899

Book, by Colin Maclaurin. An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

1750

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

3000-2500 BCE

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

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

2000 BCE

Medal to commemorate the Belgian Federation

1750

Silver medal commemorating Belgian peace after Austrian succession

1750

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Silver medal

1750

Glass sphere on a stand

1750

Bridge frame

1750

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Glass bell, with suspension ring

1750

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Iron framed Spectacles with lenses set in horn

circa 1750

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Chest microscope

1750

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Diagonal Spy Glass

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2000-100 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936