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Date

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Oil paintings

1773

Oil paintings

1774

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

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

1990-95

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

1772

Verge watch in case with pendulum balance

1776

Steelyard balance for weighing gold coins

1775

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Compound microscope by Joseph Brum

1772

Mariner's compass

circa 1775

Polished steel equal-arm balance, 1772-1775

1772-1775

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

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

One grano

1776

One cinquina bronze coin associated with Emmanuel de Rohan

1776

Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia

1775

Brass medal

1775

Copper medal

1775

Copper medal

1772

Medal, brass, of Dean Jacques Louis Alleaume

1775

Silver medal of the Royal School of Surgery

1775

Medal, bronze, commemorating Jean Fernel

1774

Bronze medal ticket for entry into horticultural and medical gardens at Amsterdam

1772

Ticket medal

1776

Glass funnel from Nooth's apparatus

1775

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1776

Guinea coin of George III

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1775

Four Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1774