Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Demainbray's convex mirror
1752
Demainbray's optical model
1752
Demainbray's optical model
1752
Demainbray's optical model
1752
Demainbray's optical model
1752
Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model
1751
Demainbray's model of a camera obscura
1752
Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham
1750
Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham
1750
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne
1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Iron Weight
1910-130
One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights
circa 2000 BCE
2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin
700-100 BCE; 1930-1950
Roman stone water main
30
Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Alabaster bottle
2000-1350
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Alabaster bottle
2000-1350
Alabaster bottle
1850-1350
Flint knife blade
10,000-2,000 BCE
Ear trumpet
1752
Silver medal of the Academie Royal de Chirurgie
1751
Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad
1913; circa 900 CE
Level by Benjamin Cole
1750
Large wheel engine used to cut the teeth of clocks
1751
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Book, by Colin Maclaurin. An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries
1750
Alabaster mortar
2000-1350
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
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
Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure
2000-1000