Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Magnetic toy by George Adams
1765
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Oil paintings
1769
Oil paintings
1773
Oil paintings
1774
Transit telescope
1770
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Silver bleeding bowl
1765-1775
Shaving bowl
1767
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772
1772
Old vertical cylinder frictional electrical machine
1765-1769
Steelyard balance for weighing gold coins
1775
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Solar microscope (dated 1770) signed B.MARTIN INVT ET FECIT LONDINI NO 34
1770
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Compound microscope by Joseph Brum
1772
Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)
1770
Mariner's compass
circa 1775
Polished steel equal-arm balance, 1772-1775
1772-1775
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Coade Stone fragment
1769
copy of a gold cup.
3000-2000 BCE
Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)
2000 BCE
Mr Thomas Mudge
1772
Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast
1775
Bronze medal commemorating the coronation of King Louis XVI in 1775
1775
Silver medal
1771
Silver medal
1771
Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia
1775
Brass medal
1775
Copper medal
1775
Bronze medal awarded to Royal Naval Surgeons
1768-1774
Copper medal to commemorate I.G.G. Orlov
1771