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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

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

1705-1737

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

George III's compound engine

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's model crriage body

1762

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

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, commemorating Jo. Jac. Belleteste

1763

Bronze medal possibly commemorating hospital

1763

Circular silver medal

1764

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal, silver, commemorating the eight apothecaries to King Louis XV of France

1764

Bronze medal,Catherine the Great

1763

Bronze medal

1763

Striker mechanism, for use with falling body acceleration demonstrations

1762

Motion and Velocity Illustration Instrument

1762

Attachment for the pillar of the philosophical table

1762

Two brass pulley blocks by Adams

1762

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Parabola, mahogany

1762

Triangle, mahogany

1762

Knife edged prism for centre of gravity experiments

1762

Fitting for stand

1762

Roman type steelyard, by George Adams

1762

Ten circular scale pans

1762

Pillar attachment for Mariotte's paradox

1762

Lever, angled, boxwood, 1762

1762

Lever with two fixed and three moveable threads, 1762

1762

Two pieces of plaster

1762

Four cubical weights with loops

1762

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