Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Spoon with folding handle
1778
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
Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fecit Utrecht 1777
1777
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
Silver medal commemorating Jean Charles Desessartz
1778
One grano
1776
One cinquina bronze coin associated with Emmanuel de Rohan
1776
1/2 Cinquina bronze coin
1777
Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia
1775
Bronze ticket medal
1776-1777
Brass medal
1775
Copper medal
1775
Bronze prize medal awarded by university founded by M. Le Marechal de Mailly
1778
Copper medal
1772
Circular silver medal
1778
Silver medal
1777
Medal, brass, of Dean Jacques Louis Alleaume
1775
Silver medal of the Royal School of Surgery
1775
Medal, bronze, commemorating Jean Fernel
1774