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Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Watch with double dial

1760

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

King George III's archimedean screw

1762

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Silver Coin of Augustus III (Poland)

1760

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Sovereign coin of George III

1762

Quarter-Guinea coin of George III

1762