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Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

Copper engraving

1792

Bronze trade token

1791

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Silver medal commemorating 100th birthday of Cornelia Bierens

1790

Coalbrookdale halfpenny token, 1792.

1792

Halfpenny token

1793

Norwich halfpenny for haberdasher, 1793

1793

Leek halfpenny token for silk, 1793

1793

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Middlesex halfpenny token, 1791.

1791

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 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

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790