Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
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
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
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
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope
1794
Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'
1794
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
The Pin and the Needle
1793
copy of a gold cup.
3000-2000 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
Bronze trade token
1792
Bronze revolutionary coin or token
1792
Bronze trade token
1792
Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793
1793
White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr
1794
Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)
1793
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Spade' coin Guinea of George III
1793
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Physionotrace of Madam Roland
1793
Lancaster canal shipping note
1794-03-03
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Metal trade token struck by the revolutionary government at Paris
1792
Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.
1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)
Red granite drill core
2686-2613 BCE
Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian
20-400
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Alabaster kohl pot
2000-1350
Calf's Head Weight
1370-1350 BCE; 1931