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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Richard Arkwright

1790

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800

Pocket surgical instrument set

1796

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Spy Glass (c.1800) by Ramsden London

1800

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

Body tube of nautical refracting telescope

1800

Pine wood circular stand, with plaster gilt decoration

1790-1800

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

1793

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Copper matrix

1800

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

1990-95

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Petit-Ecu of Three Livres coin of Louis XVI (France)

1791

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790