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Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

circa 1795

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

1795

A Singular Operation

1795

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Companion / John Curr of Sheffield

1795

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Thomas Earnshaw

1798

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Silvered trade token payable in London

1794

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Crossing for Edge Rails, 1793.

1793

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

gold token redeemable as one halfpenny by John Stride of Emsworth

1795

Gilt bronze trade token of Denton

1795

Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor

circa 1795