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Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

George III's glass sphere

1761

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Cutter, Alert

1755

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

1705-1737

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Orrery planetary model by James Ferguson, 1755-1756

1755-1756

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120