Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.
1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)
Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age
2000-500 BCE
Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age
2000-500 BCE
Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age
8500-2000 BCE
Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age
2000-500 BCE
Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC
1991-1786 BCE
Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC
1991-1786 BCE
Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age
2000-500 BCE
Twelve German jetons, 16th century.
1501-1600; 1978
Two wooden printing blocks
1800-1600
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Red granite drill core
2686-2613 BCE
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
Silver prize medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris
1796
Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936
1901-1936; 180 BCE
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving
1773 (original); 1980s
Two washers
15/7/27
Pocket surgical instrument set
1796
Two washers
15/7/27
Engraving of Graving dock
1840-160
Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro
circa 3000 BCE
Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia
3000 BCE
Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro
circa 3000 BCE
Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro
circa 3000 BCE
Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro
circa 3000 BCE
Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro
circa 3000 BCE
Token, Liverpool Halfpenny, England, 1795
1795
"The wooden walls of old England" token
1795
Beccles halfpenny
1795
Charles Guest
1795
Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE
3000 BCE
Persian pottery measure
circa 3000 BCE
Persian pottery measure
circa 3000 BCE
Flint Hand-tool, Flake-type, Stone Age
8500-2000 BCE
Flint Handaxe from Egypt, Neolithic
9000-2700 BCE
Spectacles
1795
Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor
circa 1795
Iron Weight
1910-130
RGD Television
1965-195
One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights
circa 2000 BCE
Deer Antler Piercer, Suffolk, England, Stone Age
8500-2000 BCE
Model of a Greek Trireme
1900-1943