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model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Watch with double dial

1760

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

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

1730; 1967

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Circular silver medal

1761-1762

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Striker mechanism, for use with falling body acceleration demonstrations

1762

Motion and Velocity Illustration Instrument

1762

Glass flask; glass stopper; brass capped

1761

Brass disc for air pump, 1761

1761