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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

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

circa 1795

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

Brass automatic lancet

1798

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

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

Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON

1795

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

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

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796

Bronze token or coin

1796

Circular silver medal

1797

Bronze medal

1798

Silver prize medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris

1796

Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793

1793

White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr

1794

Print, John Smeaton. Civil Engineer. F.R.S.

1798

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793