Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

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 Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

RGD Television

1965-195

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

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Circular white metal medal

1789

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Silver medal

1789

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

1790

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Copy of an Egyptian bas-relief, Europe, 1801-1930

1801-1930

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350