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Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

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 convex lens

1750

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 convex mirror

1752

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

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

Cutter, Alert

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

Brass Clarke's hydrometer

1755

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

1990-95

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

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Six ivory balls

1750

Level by Benjamin Cole

1750

Trade Bill Le Sr. Magny

1750

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Wooden backstaff.

1759

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

2000 BCE

Silver medal commemorating Charles Alexander Loth

1756

One cinquina

1752

Medal, copper of Dean Jean-Baptiste Louis Chomel

1756

Brass medal

1758