'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Divers Projets
1798
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market
1800
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son
1796
'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1800
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise
1800
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Compass
1800
Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote
1800
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Lever escapement watch by John Grant
1795
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte
1800
Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son
1795
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son
1795
Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement
1792
Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery
1792
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Half-penny coin
1799
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory
1792
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Marine barometer by R.B. Bate
mid-1800s
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797
1797
Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy
1800
Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb
1799
Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son
1795
Watch movement by John Grant
1800
Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu
1797
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Half-penny coin
1799
Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797
1797
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Dundee halfpenny
1797
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979