Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
1806 - 1859
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Snow, John
1813 - 1858
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
James Watt's Garret Workshop, used 1790-1819.
1790-1819
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Napoleon's Toothbrush, Europe, 1790-1821
1790-1821
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Tin can used for the early preservation of food
1812
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Five wooden molecular model balls
circa 1810
Box containing minerals and mixing sticks
1790-1819
Piece of wood, one side partly cut out
1790-1819
Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman
1790-1820
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Silver Regency tripod mustard pot
1811-1812
Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797
1797
Chemical Lectures
circa 1810
Model, press for cutting out coin blanks
circa 1808
Nightingale, Florence
1820 - 1910
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Jennens and Company Limited
1800
Park Green Mill Double Dialled Longcase Clock
1800-1820
Trevithick locomotive drawings and frames
circa 1804
Atkins, Anna
1799 - 1871
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Cloud studies
1803-1811
Babbage, Charles
1791 - 1871
Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited
1818 - 1984
Newcomen Atmospheric Engine
1791
Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1810-1812
1810-1812
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Joule, James Prescott
1818 - 1889
Plaster cast of Venus
1790-1819
Plaster mould of head of Apollo
1790-1819
Socrates
1790-1819
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Half-penny coin
1806
Weights and measures
1805
9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade
1790-1819
Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.
1812
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
Near Wellington, Shropshire
1821
Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid
1809
Plaster bust of Aristotle
1790-1819