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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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 Machineā€¦'

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

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

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

Trade token

1791

Bronze trade token

1791

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Bronze revolutionary coin or token

1792

Bronze money token

1791