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Date

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

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

1705-1737

George III's compound engine

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's model crriage body

1762

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772

1772

Silver medal

1771

Silver medal to commemorate the recovery of the Empress Maria Theresa

1767

Circular gold(?) medal, awarded to I. Ponsonby as

1765

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Silver Coin of Augustus III (Poland)

1763

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1772

Two Reales coin of Charles III (Spain)

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1773

Four Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1774

Two Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1773

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Guinea coin of George III

1762

Quarter-Sovereign coin of George III

1762

Two Denari coin of Victor Amadeus II (King of Sardinia)

1774

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000