Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986
1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Mrs. Sage
1785
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele
1786
Alabaster kohl pot
2000-1350
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle
1784
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Jean Pierre Blanchard
1785
Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)
1786
Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)
1785
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Sun-dial, analemmatic, inscribed
1784
Silver vinaigrette
1786
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish
3500-1000
Flint hand tool
8500-2000 BCE
Red granite drill core
2686-2613 BCE
Small Stone Age
8500-2000 BCE
Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Small Stone Age
8500-2000 BCE
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon
1784
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.
1786
Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Flint hand tool
8500-2000 BCE
Flint hand tool
8500-2000 BCE
Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)
2000 BCE
Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier
1786
Forceps, spring-action, steel
1801-190