Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches
1780
Mezzotint portrait of John Bird
1776
Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs
1778-1780
Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter
1780
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Wax male anatomical figure
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
English wooden doll
circa 1780
Mrs. Sage
1785
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933
1900-1933
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Votive plaque with right ear in relief
400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief
100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936
Earthenware jug
2000-1350