Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Marine chronometer by John Arnold
1771
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Magnetic toy by George Adams
1765
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Expedition Crane
1764
Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest
1766
Gold watch by Raymont
1772
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Zinc discs, painted one side white with broad red line across the centre
1772-1773
Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming
1766
Terrestrial Globe by George Adams
1766
Sextant by Jesse Ramsden
circa 1772
Arm for dividing apparatus built by James Watt
1772-1774
Celestial globe by George Adams
1766
Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock
1768-1769
Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott
1767
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Reproduction of Hargreaves's original Spinning Jenny
1765
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
John Harrison, oil painting
1767
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769
1768-1769
Working model of Hero's Aeolipile
100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack
1910-1921
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb
1991-1783 BCE
Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming
1766
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Plate Electrical Machine
1770
s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894
1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)