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Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

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

Cutter, Alert

1755

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

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

1850-1899

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

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal, bronze, commemorating L.J.M.

1755

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Combined level & clinometer, German, 1755

1755

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

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Boxfoot microscope with ball-socketed pillar

1755

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

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

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

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

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

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

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

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

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936