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Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

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

1705-1737

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

'A Letter to Lord Viscount Howe....', Printed from Logotypes, 1787

1787

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Circular white metal medal

1789

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Model of double-hulled muscular powered paddle and sailing ship

1787

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the New Geyser

1789

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

A view of the mouth of a coal pit...

1788

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Crab with contrate gear, in wooden frame

circa 1790

Silver medal commemorating surgeon

1787

Pap boat

1789-1790