Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory
1792
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
Richard Arkwright
1790
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Clarke's improved hydrometer
1792
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
Tobacco box
1792
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter
1793
Pocket watch in silver case
hallmarked 1795
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Silver vinaigrette
1790
Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope
1794
Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'
1794
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON
1795
Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)
1790
Box and weights for money changer's scales
1790
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Italian albarello vase
1791
The Pin and the Needle
1793
copy of a gold cup.
3000-2000 BCE
Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London
1795
Barton Aqueduct
circa 1793
Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)
2000 BCE
Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership
1793
Bronze trade token
1792
John Whitehurst F.R.S.
1788
Trade token
1791
Bronze trade token
1791
Tin-plated prize medal for medicine and surgery
1788-1794
Bronze revolutionary coin or token
1792
Silver prize medal from Military Academy of Medicine and Surgery with bust of Emperor Joseph II
1788-1794
Bronze money token
1791
Circular copper halfpenny token
1795