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Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Pyramidal Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Flat-topped Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Statue of Chinese zodiac sign Yin, the tiger

1871-1900; 219-618 CE

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Swedish subfossil pine sample, 1998; 1600 BCE

1684-1569 BCE; 1998

Volute compass, 1760.

1760

Lift pump

before 1753

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Orrery planetary model by James Ferguson, 1755-1756

1755-1756

'Matthew Chancellor's Dream', print, England, 1751

1751

Optical cabinet

1760

Pocket surgical instrument set in 3-fold leather case

1803-876

Cassegrain reflecting Telescope of 2 1/2-inch aperture

1756-1758

Solar microscope accessory

1753

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels

1988 (model); 1752 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Harbour'

1754

Circular bronze medal

1756

Bronze medal with brass surround

1752

Copper medal

1756

Medal, silver, commemorating Dean Jean-Baptiste Boyer

1756

Bronze medal struck to commemorate Jean-Baptiste Boyer

1756

Medal to commemorate H T Baron

1751

Silver medal commemorating the Viennese Academy

1756

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal, ticket for free entry into the garden of medicine for an F. Read

1757

Medal, silver, prize awarded to De La Martiniere

1753

Bronze prize medal

1756

Bronze medal to commemorate H.T. Baron

1754

Optical model of a Galilean telescope

1753

Model: two lens telescope by George Adams

1753

Friction demonstration engine, George Graham

1751

Terrestial globe, 1754.

1754

Model of Halley's diving bell

1752

s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894

1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)

Drill cone of Diorite

3000 BCE

Trying plane, 1756

1756

Three-foot folding rule with logarithmic slide

1752

European astrolabe by Arsenius, 1566

1566; 1876

Replica of Saxon 'Sinking Bowl' Water Clock, 1931

1931; 750-850 CE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Malt Distillery'

1754

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Calico printing'

1754

Watch Wheels

1756

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Plaster Cast of an Early English Sundial, 1920-1935

670 CE; 1920-1935

Plaster Cast Reproduction of Civita Lavinia Hemicycle, 1945-1955

350-250 BCE; 1945-1955